Ain't no makin' it [[electronic resource] ] : aspirations & attainment in a low-income neighborhood / / Jay MacLeod |
Autore | MacLeod Jay |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (553 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Urban poor - United States
Youth with social disabilities - United States Social mobility - United States Equality - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-429-49545-5
1-283-13677-5 9786613136770 0-7867-3179-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454336003321 |
MacLeod Jay | ||
Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The making of the slave class [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Carrier |
Autore | Carrier Jerry <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Social classes - United States
Social stratification - United States Poor - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-87586-770-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459915503321 |
Carrier Jerry <1948-> | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The making of the slave class [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Carrier |
Autore | Carrier Jerry <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Social classes - United States
Social stratification - United States Poor - United States |
ISBN | 0-87586-770-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785573403321 |
Carrier Jerry <1948-> | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The making of the slave class / / Jerry Carrier |
Autore | Carrier Jerry <1948-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Social classes - United States
Social stratification - United States Poor - United States |
ISBN | 0-87586-770-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819729503321 |
Carrier Jerry <1948-> | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traveling light [[electronic resource] ] : on the road with America's poor / / Kath Weston |
Autore | Weston Kath <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Poor - United States
Poverty - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8070-9652-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454614903321 |
Weston Kath <1958-> | ||
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traveling light [[electronic resource] ] : on the road with America's poor / / Kath Weston |
Autore | Weston Kath <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Poor - United States
Poverty - United States |
ISBN | 0-8070-9652-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782748503321 |
Weston Kath <1958-> | ||
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traveling light : on the road with America's poor / / Kath Weston |
Autore | Weston Kath <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/690973 |
Soggetto topico |
Poor - United States
Poverty - United States |
ISBN | 0-8070-9652-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Freedom in My Pocket -- It's a Poor Rat That's Got But One Hole: An Introduction to Living Poor in a Rich Country -- I. When the Desert Fails to Bloom: Albuquerque to Missoula via Vegas -- Pennies from Heaven -- Final Call for Socorro, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Las Cruces . . . -- Everybody Out! Hands Up against the Bus! -- The Trucker's Lament -- Keep Your Eyes on the Burrito -- Those Fools up at the VA -- Who You Calling "Food Stamps"? -- Next Stop, Sin City -- Wait Training -- The Trash Bag Racer Rally and Other Extreme Sports -- Fight! -- You Don't Say -- Already Got a Job and a Lot of Good It Done Me -- The Singing Bus -- II. Leaving the City of Cranes: Boston to Milwaukee in Two Alimentary Acts -- Awash in a Great Green Sea -- Master and Commander -- I Just Hate to Travel Like This -- Y'all Shouldn't Have Ate That Chicken -- Too-Tired Meets His Maker -- Ladies and Children First -- Anybody Asks You for the Time, You Don't Have It -- Sick as a Downsized Dog -- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? -- III. Going Coastal: Five Hundred Years of the Poverty Draft, New York to St. Augustine -- Port Question Authority -- The Amazing Debt-Defying Disappearing Bus -- Todos Que Hermanos -- Little Box of Terrors -- Dr. King on the Waterfront -- Ready to Die but Never Will -- What Did You Do with My Aunt? -- The Castillo Economy -- IV. The Fine Arts of Moving in Circles: El Monte to Bishop and Back -- Riding Along with Princess Di -- All Snakes, No Ladders -- Swagger -- The Philosopher-King Does Sacramento -- To See What There Is to See -- Books Mobile and the Secret Stash -- This Place Is a Dump -- Ride in Beauty -- V. Living on Debts and Promises: Montgomery after the Boycott, New Orleans before the Storm -- Mickey's Hot Little Cousin -- The Back Is Where It's At -- Take a Deep Breath -- Vietnam Thirty Plus -- Snap! Judgments.
Lovebug -- Another Get-Poor-Quick Scheme -- The Borrowed Time Club -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Read On . .. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813558003321 |
Weston Kath <1958-> | ||
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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