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

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.