Facing Up to the American Dream : : Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation / / Jennifer L. Hochschild.
The 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 centra...
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Hochschild, Jennifer L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Facing Up to the American Dream : Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation / Jennifer L. Hochschild. With a New preface by the author Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996] ©1996 1 online resource (440 p.) : 10 figs. 24 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 51 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figure -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Philosophical and Empirical Context -- Chapter One. What is the American Dream? -- Chapter Two. Rich and Poor African Americans -- Part Two. The Three Paradoxes -- Chapter Three. "What'S All the Fuss About?": Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs About the American Dream -- Chapter Four. "Succeeding More" and "Under the Spell": Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream -- Part Three. Succeeding More and Enjoying it Less -- Chapter Five. Beliefs about One'S Own Life -- Chapter Six. Beliefs about Others -- Chapter Seven. Competitive Success and Collective Well-Being -- Part Four. Under the Spell of the Great National Suggestion -- Chapter Eight. Remaining under the Spell -- Chapter Nine. With One Part of Themselves they Actually Believe -- Chapter Ten. Distorting the Dream -- Chapter Eleven. Breaking the Spell -- Chapter Twelve. The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values -- Part Five. Race and the American Dream -- Chapter Thirteen. Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants -- Chapter Fourteen. The Future of the American Dream -- Appendix A. Surveys used for Unpublished Tabulations -- Appendix B. Supplemental Tables -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The 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 1960s 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) African Americans Economic conditions. African Americans Social conditions 1975-. Social classes United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691029207 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821730 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821730 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400821730.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figure -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Philosophical and Empirical Context -- Chapter One. What is the American Dream? -- Chapter Two. Rich and Poor African Americans -- Part Two. The Three Paradoxes -- Chapter Three. "What'S All the Fuss About?": Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs About the American Dream -- Chapter Four. "Succeeding More" and "Under the Spell": Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream -- Part Three. Succeeding More and Enjoying it Less -- Chapter Five. Beliefs about One'S Own Life -- Chapter Six. Beliefs about Others -- Chapter Seven. Competitive Success and Collective Well-Being -- Part Four. Under the Spell of the Great National Suggestion -- Chapter Eight. Remaining under the Spell -- Chapter Nine. With One Part of Themselves they Actually Believe -- Chapter Ten. Distorting the Dream -- Chapter Eleven. Breaking the Spell -- Chapter Twelve. The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values -- Part Five. Race and the American Dream -- Chapter Thirteen. Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants -- Chapter Fourteen. The Future of the American Dream -- Appendix A. Surveys used for Unpublished Tabulations -- Appendix B. Supplemental Tables -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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