LEADER 05852nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910780051603321 005 20220913230658.0 010 $a1-4008-0371-3 010 $a9786612752261 010 $a1-4008-2173-8 010 $a1-282-75226-X 010 $a1-4008-1209-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821730 035 $a(CKB)111056486501404 035 $a(EBL)581607 035 $a(OCoLC)700688622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12036425 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392469 035 $a(PQKB)10575935 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000436392 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11275799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436392 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10426704 035 $a(PQKB)10937317 035 $a(OCoLC)729384834 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35985 035 $a(DE-B1597)446146 035 $a(OCoLC)979757054 035 $a(OCoLC)984634228 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821730 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031972 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275226 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581607 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501404 100 $a19950313d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFacing up to the American dream$b[electronic resource] $erace, class, and the soul of the nation /$fJennifer L. Hochschild 205 $aWith a New preface by the author 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (433 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in American politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-02957-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [341]-397) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tTables and Figure --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart One. The Philosophical and Empirical Context --$tChapter One. What is the American Dream? --$tChapter Two. Rich and Poor African Americans --$tPart Two. The Three Paradoxes --$tChapter Three. "What's All the Fuss About?": Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs About the American Dream --$tChapter Four. "Succeeding More" and "Under the Spell": Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream --$tPart Three. Succeeding More and Enjoying it Less --$tChapter Five. Beliefs about One's Own Life --$tChapter Six. Beliefs about Others --$tChapter Seven. Competitive Success and Collective Well-Being --$tPart Four. Under the Spell of the Great National Suggestion --$tChapter Eight. Remaining under the Spell --$tChapter Nine. With One Part of Themselves they Actually Believe --$tChapter Ten. Distorting the Dream --$tChapter Eleven. Breaking the Spell --$tChapter Twelve. The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values --$tPart Five. Race and the American Dream --$tChapter Thirteen. Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants --$tChapter Fourteen. The Future of the American Dream --$tAppendix A. Surveys used for Unpublished Tabulations --$tAppendix B. Supplemental Tables --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThe ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. In this compassionate but frightening book, Hochschild attributes our national distress to the ways in which whites and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960's white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race. Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their families can succeed--despite their terrible, perhaps worsening, living conditions. Meanwhile, a tiny number of the estranged poor, who have completely given up on the American dream or any other faith, threaten the social fabric of the black community and the very lives of their fellow blacks. Hochschild probes these patterns and gives them historical depth by comparing the experience of today's African Americans to that of white ethnic immigrants at the turn of the century. She concludes by claiming that America's only alternative to the social disaster of intensified racial conflict lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in American politics. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975- 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aSocial classes 676 $a305.8/00973 700 $aHochschild$b Jennifer L.$f1950-$01464395 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780051603321 996 $aFacing up to the American dream$93674477 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$94.50$u04/21/2015$5Soc