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Reformed American dreams : welfare mothers, higher education, and activism
- Title
- Reformed American dreams : welfare mothers, higher education, and activism / Sheila M. Katz.
- Author
- Katz, Sheila Marie
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 234 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy. Half of the participants in Sheila M. Katz's research were activists with the grassroots welfare rights organization, LIFETIME, trying to change welfare policy and to advocate for better access to higher education. Reformed American Dreams takes up their struggle to raise families, attend school, and become student activists, all while trying to escape poverty. Katz highlights mothers' experiences as they pursued higher education on welfare and became grassroots activists during the Great Recession"--
- "Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Reforming the American Dream -- Pathways onto Welfare and into College -- Reformed Grassroots Activism -- Survival through College -- My Education Means Everything to Me -- Hope and Fear during the Great Recession -- Graduating into the Great Recession -- An American Dream for All.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11225
- ISBN
- 9780813594347
- 0813594340
- 9780813594354
- 0813594359
- LCCN
- 2018042830
- OCLC
- 1055265528
- Author
- Katz, Sheila Marie, author.
- Title
- Reformed American dreams : welfare mothers, higher education, and activism / Sheila M. Katz.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11225