LEADER 04296nam 2200685 450 001 9910459986503321 005 20210421220928.0 010 $a0-520-27775-9 010 $a0-520-96031-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520960312 035 $a(CKB)3710000000316765 035 $a(EBL)1732135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001381142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11773250 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11390715 035 $a(PQKB)11663087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1732135 035 $a(DE-B1597)520949 035 $a(OCoLC)898421637 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520960312 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1732135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11003289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL688029 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000316765 100 $a20150120h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDriving after class $eanxious times in an American suburb /$fRachel Heiman 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (743 p.) 225 1 $aCalifornia Series in Public Anthropology ;$v31 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-56747-6 311 0 $a0-520-27774-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Common Sense in Anxious Times --$t2. Being Post-Brooklyn --$t3. Gate Expectations --$t4. Driving after Class --$t5. Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement --$t6. From White Flight to Community Might --$t7. A Conclusion, or Rather, a Commencement --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aA paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Having fled to the suburbs in search of affordable homes, open space, and better schools, city-raised parents found their modest homes eclipsed by McMansions, local schools and roads overburdened and underfunded, and their ability to keep up with the pressures of extravagant consumerism increasingly tenuous. How do class anxieties play out amid such disconcerting cultural, political, and economic changes? In this incisive ethnography set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, Rachel Heiman takes us into people's homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time. With a gift for bringing to life the everyday workings of class in the lives of children, youth, and their parents, Heiman offers an illuminating look at the contemporary complexities of class rooted in racialized lives, hyperconsumption, and neoliberal citizenship. She argues convincingly that to understand our current economic situation we need to attend to the subtle but forceful formation of sensibilities, spaces, and habits that durably motivate people and shape their actions and outlooks. "Rugged entitlement" is Heiman's name for the middle class's sense of entitlement to a way of life that is increasingly untenable and that is accompanied by an anxious feeling that they must vigilantly pursue their own interests to maintain and further their class position. Driving after Class is a model of fine-grained ethnography that shows how families try to make sense of who they are and where they are going in a highly competitive and uncertain time. 410 0$aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;$v31. 606 $aSocial classes$zNew Jersey 606 $aSuburban life$zNew Jersey 606 $aMiddle class$zNew Jersey 607 $aNew Jersey$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial classes 615 0$aSuburban life 615 0$aMiddle class 676 $a305.5/509749 700 $aHeiman$b Rachel$01045378 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459986503321 996 $aDriving after class$92471619 997 $aUNINA