When Race Meets Class

African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-13488-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents, friends, teachers, coaches, strangers) shape their hopes, fears, aspirations, and worldviews. The intersectionality of their social identities—how race, class, and gender come together to influence how they come to think about who they are—influences many behaviors that directly contradict their stated aspirations. Affected, too, by limited access to resources, these youths often take a path profoundly different from their stated values and life goals. Levine explores the volatility and constraints underlying their decision-making and behaviors. The book reveals the critical junctures and turning points shaping life trajectories, challenging many long-held assumptions about the persistence of racial inequality by offering new insights on the educational and occupational barriers facing young African Americans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Rhonda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Hoveys’ Porch. Chapter 3. School Daze. Chapter 4. Sports and a Caring Coach. Chapter 5. The Gender Factor: Bad Black Girls Who Are Not All Bad. Chapter 6. From Teenagers to Adulthood: Revisiting Hoveys’ Porch. Chapter 7. Conclusion. Appendix: A Note On Methodology. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rhonda F. Levine is Professor of Sociology, Emerita, at Colgate University, USA. She is the author of Class, Networks, and Identity (2001) and Class Struggle and The New Deal (1988), and editor of Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline (2005) and Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates, Second Edition (2006).