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Record Nr.

UNINA9911135174703321

Autore

Kefalas Maria J. <1967->

Titolo

Working-class heroes : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood / / Maria Kefalas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612762772

9781598750157

1598750151

9780520936652

0520936655

9781282762770

128276277X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

306/.09773/11

Soggetti

Working class - Illinois - Chicago

Sociology, Urban - Illinois - Chicago

Social values - Illinois - Chicago

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations

Beltway (Chicago, Ill.)

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. 181-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. In Search of Working-Class Chicago -- ONE. Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave -- TWO. A Precious Corner of the World -- THREE. Home, Sweet Home -- FOUR. For Country and Home -- CONCLUSION. The Last Garden -- Appendix: In the Field -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class



community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.