Reformed American Dreams : : Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism /

Reformed American Dreams : : Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism / / Sheila M. Katz.

Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the i...

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Katz, Sheila M.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reforming the American Dream
  • 2. Pathways onto Welfare and into College
  • 3. Reformed Grassroots Activism
  • 4. Survival through College
  • 5. My Education Means Everything to Me
  • 6. Hope and Fear during the Great Recession
  • 7. Graduating into the Great Recession
  • 8. An American Dream for All
  • Afterword: Evolution of the American Dream
  • Appendix A: Methods Appendix
  • Appendix B: Profiles of Interview Participants in 2006
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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