Facing Up to the American Dream : : Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation /

Facing Up to the American Dream : : Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation / / Jennifer L. Hochschild.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Hochschild, Jennifer L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Edition:With a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 51
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 10 figs. 24 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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  • Appendix A. Surveys used for Unpublished Tabulations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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