Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	305.5120973
Soggetto topico	Social stratification - United States Race discrimination - Economic aspects - United States African Americans - Economic conditions - 21st century African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century Pan-Africanism - Economic aspects
ISBN	1-4985-3315-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Africana sociology and economics: an interdisciplinary analysis of Black social stratification / James L. Conyers Jr -- The emerging field of stratification economics: a unified social science theory of race and inequality? / Greg Price -- Frontstage and backstage racial performances: the contributions of backstage methodological research / Brittany Slatton -- "Girls can't play no ball": the invisibility of Black woman athletes in film / Drew Brown -- Pan-African Belize: a case for praxis / Devon Lee -- Insights regarding Black-White economic inequality from stratification economics / James B. Stewart -- A new era for labor? The promises and perils of the fast food workers strike movement / Marcia Walker McWilliams -- Affirming or dis-confirming America's promise: attitudes about affirmative action among Black Americans and Black immigrants / Anthony D. Greene, LaTasha Chaffin, Maruice Mangum, and Jason Shelton -- An obsolete people? The precarious position of African Americans in the twenty-first-century economy / Robert E. Weems -- New (Pan)-Africanism or neoliberal globalization? introducing Nigeria's Afri-capitalism and South Africa's Ubuntu business / Kiki Odezie.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910796384903321

Autore	Brantlinger Ellen A.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina	306.43
Soggetto topico	Educational sociology - United States Students - United States - Social conditions Social stratification - United States Middle class - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-95433-X 9786610224012 1-299-45912-9 1-136-28438-9 1-280-22401-0 0-203-11289-X 0-203-46547-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Dividing Classes HOW THE MIDDLE CLASS NEGOTIATESAND RATIONALIZES SCHOOL ADVANTAGE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Class Position, Social Life, and School Outcomes; 2 Examining Social Class Reproduction at Micro and Emic Levels: A Critical, Interpretive Study; 3 Affluent Mothers Narrate Their Own and Other People's Children; 4 Conflicted Pedagogical and Curricular Perspectives of Middle-Class Mothers; 5 Positions and Outlooks of Teachers at Different Schools; 6 Impact of Teacher Position on Divided Classes; 7 Succumbing to Demands: Administrators under Pressure 8 School Board Perceptions of Policy and Power by Michelle Henderson9 Conclusion: Choosing a Democratic, Communitarian Ethic for Schools and Society; Notes; References; Subject Index; Author Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450329103321

Autore	Brantlinger Ellen A.
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina	306.43
Soggetto topico	Educational sociology - United States Students - United States - Social conditions Social stratification - United States Middle class - United States
ISBN	1-136-28437-0 1-135-95433-X 9786610224012 1-299-45912-9 1-136-28438-9 1-280-22401-0 0-203-11289-X 0-203-46547-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Dividing Classes HOW THE MIDDLE CLASS NEGOTIATESAND RATIONALIZES SCHOOL ADVANTAGE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Class Position, Social Life, and School Outcomes; 2 Examining Social Class Reproduction at Micro and Emic Levels: A Critical, Interpretive Study; 3 Affluent Mothers Narrate Their Own and Other People's Children; 4 Conflicted Pedagogical and Curricular Perspectives of Middle-Class Mothers; 5 Positions and Outlooks of Teachers at Different Schools; 6 Impact of Teacher Position on Divided Classes; 7 Succumbing to Demands: Administrators under Pressure 8 School Board Perceptions of Policy and Power by Michelle Henderson9 Conclusion: Choosing a Democratic, Communitarian Ethic for Schools and Society; Notes; References; Subject Index; Author Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910815232303321

Autore	Winslow Luke <1980->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (189 pages)
Disciplina	330.973
Soggetto topico	Equality - Economic aspects - United States Income distribution - United States Social stratification - United States Democracy - United States Rhetoric
ISBN	1-4985-4415-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: economic injustice and the rhetoric of the American dream -- The language of inequality -- The myth of the American dream -- Prosperity theology and the American dream -- Education, neoliberalism, and the American dream -- The Great Recession and the collapse of the American dream -- Trump's rapture in the ashes of the American dream -- Constructing an alternative vocabulary.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910794805803321

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