Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working ClassRoutledge, 2005 M01 15 - 232 pages Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part, still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy. Class Reunion is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study that provides powerful, provocative insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future. |
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... IDENTITY, AND REPRESENTATION IN E 3UCATION Cameron McCarthy and Warren Crichlow, editors ic SCHOOLS THAT WORK: OTNG COMMUNITY ;ory A. Smith, editor ER AND METHOD: POLITICAL ACT VISM AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Andrew Gitlin, editor GRIT ...
... IDENTITY, AND REPRESENTATION IN E 3UCATION Cameron McCarthy and Warren Crichlow, editors ic SCHOOLS THAT WORK: OTNG COMMUNITY ;ory A. Smith, editor ER AND METHOD: POLITICAL ACT VISM AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Andrew Gitlin, editor GRIT ...
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... identities. She revealed that while working-class young men might be integrated into rightist ideological positions and identities, the lived culture of young women provided "unconscious" resources that made it harder for them to be ...
... identities. She revealed that while working-class young men might be integrated into rightist ideological positions and identities, the lived culture of young women provided "unconscious" resources that made it harder for them to be ...
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... identities in partly progressive directions. Do not misinterpret either my or Weis's points here. The destruction of ... identity. In this community it is also the "Arab" who is positioned as the danger to hearth and home. Thus, even ...
... identities in partly progressive directions. Do not misinterpret either my or Weis's points here. The destruction of ... identity. In this community it is also the "Arab" who is positioned as the danger to hearth and home. Thus, even ...
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... identity designation and not simply as an economic relation to the means of production" (Walkerdine et al., 2001, p. 13). Rather than conceptualizing class as linked primarily to men who labor in particular relation to the capitalist ...
... identity designation and not simply as an economic relation to the means of production" (Walkerdine et al., 2001, p. 13). Rather than conceptualizing class as linked primarily to men who labor in particular relation to the capitalist ...
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... identity. Although Aronowitz suggests that he does not mean to ignore gender and race formations, there is, as Bettie points out, "consistent slippage between this hopeful statement and the ensuing analysis which reveals that we are to ...
... identity. Although Aronowitz suggests that he does not mean to ignore gender and race formations, there is, as Bettie points out, "consistent slippage between this hopeful statement and the ensuing analysis which reveals that we are to ...
Contents
Young Men at Freeway High | 23 |
Young Women at Freeway High | 51 |
We Meet the Men Again | 73 |
Those Men Who Stay | 87 |
Picking Up the Pieces and Moving Forward | 143 |
Methods and Reflections | 185 |
References | 201 |
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