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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
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Table of contents
Contents
Preface XI
Acknowledgments XIII
1 Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity 3
2 Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective 11
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: Schooled by Social Class 12
Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and Habitus 13
Basil Bernstein and Shirley Brice Heath: Linguistic Cultural Capital 16
Paul Willis: The Lads and the Ear'oles 18
Henry Giroux: Student Resistance to School 20
Social Reproduction in Clarendon Heights 22
Notes 23
3 Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers 25
The Hallway Hangers: "You Gotta Be Bad" 25
The Brothers: Conspicuous by Their Conventionality 43
Notes 49
4 The Influence of the Family 50
The Hallway Hangers' Households 50
The Brothers' Families 53
Notes 60
5 The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers 61
The Hallway Hangers: Keeping a Lid on Hope 61
The Brothers: Ready at the Starting Line 74
Notes 81
6 School: Preparing for the Competition 83
The Brothers: Conformity and Compliance 88
The Hallway Hangers: Teacher's Nightmare 92
The Underlying Logic of Student Behavior 97
Notes 110
7 Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll 112
The Hallway Hangers: Internalizing Probabilities, Rescuing Self-Esteem 113
The Brothers: Internalizing Failure, Shorn of Self-Esteem 124
The Sources of Variation 128
Notes 134
8 Reproduction Theory Reconsidered 135
Building on Bourdieu 135
From Ethnography to Theory 138
Individuals in the Social Landscape 144
Cultural Autonomy Within Structural Constraints 147
Notes 150
9 The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair 155
On the Job 160
Working the Street 169
Producing Themselves 182
Notes 194
10 The Brothers: Dreams Deferred 196
Shortchanged on the Labor Market 196
Sold on School 211
Aspiration and Outcome: What Went Wrong? 217
Groping for the Good Life 231
Notes 237
11 Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(e) 239
Poverty: A Class Issue 241
Racial Domination: Invidious but Invisible 243
Race Versus Class: Can They Be Untangled? 247
Structure Versus Agency: "No One to Blame but Me" 250
What Is to Be Done? 259
Class Dismissed 265
Notes 268
Appendix: On the Making of Ain't No Makin' It 270
Fieldwork: Doubts, Dilemmas, and Discoveries 270
Second Harvest: Notes on the 1991 Field Experience 293
Bibliography 303
About the Book and Author 310
Index 311
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