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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820863703321

Autore

MacLeod Jay

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, c2009

ISBN

0429495455

1-283-13677-5

9786613136770

0-7867-3179-6

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (553 p.)

Disciplina

305.5690973

Soggetti

Urban poor - United States

Youth with social disabilities - United States

Social mobility - United States

Equality - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The hallway hangers and the brothers as teenagers -- pt. 2. Eight years later : low income, low outcome -- pt. 3. Ain't no makin' it? : the men at midlife.

Sommario/riassunto

Author                                                       Jay MacLeod                                  's classic ethnography-a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction and inequality as lived through the young men from the Clarendon Heights housing project-now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original Brothers and Hallway Hangers through new interviews and analysis.