The Minds of Marginalized Black Men : : Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances / / Alford A. Young.
While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
51 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One. LOGICS
- Introduction. Making New Sense of Poor Black Men in Crisis
- Chapter One. The Past and Future of the Cultural Analysis of Black Men
- Part Two. LIFEWORLDS
- Chapter Two. Time, Space, and Everyday Living
- Chapter Three. Coming Up Poor
- Part Three. WORLDVIEWS
- Chapter Four. Framing Social Reality: Stratification and Inequality
- Chapter Five. Framing Individual Mobility and Attainment
- Chapter Six. Looking Up from Below: Framing Personal Reality
- Chapter Seven. Getting There: Navigating Personal Mobility
- Chapter Eight. Recasting the Crisis of Poor Black Men
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Backmatter