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The unknown city : lives of poor and working class young adults / [compiled by] Michelle Fine and Lois Weis.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c1998.Description: x, 342 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0807041122 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.235/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.73.B83 U55 1998
Contents:
1. Voices of Hope and Despair. 2. Narrating the 1980s and 1990's ; Voices of White and African American Men. 3. Loss of Privilege Inside White, Working-Class Masculinity. 4. "To Stand Up and Be Men" ; Black Males Rewriting Social Representations. 5. "It's a Small Frog That Will Never Leave Puerto Rico" ; Puerto Rican Men and the Struggle for Place in the United States. 6. Cops, Crime, and Violence. 7. "I've Slept In Clothes Long Enough" ; Domestic Violence among Women in the White Working Class. 8. "Food In Our Stomachs and a Roof Overhead" ; African American Women Crossing Borders. 9. Working Without a Not ; Poor Mothers Raising Their Families. 10. Refusing the Betrayal ; Latinas Redefining Gender, Sexuality, Family, and Home. 11. "You Can Never Get Too Much" ; Reflections on Urban Schooling ... for Grown-Ups and Kids. 12. Work, the State, and the Body ; Re-viewing the Loss and Re-imagining the Future. Epilogue: Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork. Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban. Ethnographies.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ799.73 .B83 U55 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000606300

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-328) and index.

1. Voices of Hope and Despair. 2. Narrating the 1980s and 1990's ; Voices of White and African American Men. 3. Loss of Privilege Inside White, Working-Class Masculinity. 4. "To Stand Up and Be Men" ; Black Males Rewriting Social Representations. 5. "It's a Small Frog That Will Never Leave Puerto Rico" ; Puerto Rican Men and the Struggle for Place in the United States. 6. Cops, Crime, and Violence. 7. "I've Slept In Clothes Long Enough" ; Domestic Violence among Women in the White Working Class. 8. "Food In Our Stomachs and a Roof Overhead" ; African American Women Crossing Borders. 9. Working Without a Not ; Poor Mothers Raising Their Families. 10. Refusing the Betrayal ; Latinas Redefining Gender, Sexuality, Family, and Home. 11. "You Can Never Get Too Much" ; Reflections on Urban Schooling ... for Grown-Ups and Kids. 12. Work, the State, and the Body ; Re-viewing the Loss and Re-imagining the Future. Epilogue: Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork. Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban. Ethnographies.

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