Research Catalog

Title

Ain't no makin' it : aspirations & attainment in a low-income neighborhood / Jay MacLeod.

Author

MacLeod, Jay.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2009.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiv, 537 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Jay McLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights public housing development and introduced us to Jinx and Mokey and their teenage friends in 1987 with the first edition of "Ain't No Makin' It." The dreams of one peer group and the defeatism of the other moved readers, challenged ethnic stereotypes, and suggested how poverty is perpetuated. Eight years later MacLeod returned to Clarendon Heights, and the 1995 revision revealed how the young men struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. This third edition chronicles their lives into middle age. Having renewed relationships with the men, MacLeod allows them to speak for themselves in thirteen new interviews that are by turns heartbreaking and uplifting. "Ain't No Makin' It" remains an admired and invaluable testament to how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. -- From publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Ain't no making it

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Urban poor > United States > Case studies
• Youth with social disabilities > United States > Case studies
• Social mobility > United States > Case studies
• Equality > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-519) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Social immobility in the land of opportunity -- Social reproduction in theoretical perspective -- Teenagers in Clarendon Heights : the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers -- The influence of the family -- The world of work : aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers -- School : preparing for the competition -- Leveled aspirations : social reproduction takes its toll -- Reproduction theory reconsidered -- The Hallway Hangers : dealing in despair -- The Brothers : dreams deferred -- Conclusion : outclassed and outcast(e) -- The Hallway Hangers : weeble, wobble, but we don't fall down -- The Brothers : finally finding a foothold -- Reproduction, redemption, and respect.

ISBN

• 9780813343587
• 0813343585

LCCN

^^2008015528

OCLC

225852342

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library