Honky

Name: Honky
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ISBN: 9780520215863

ISBN-10: 0520215869

ISBN-13: 9780520215863

Edition: 2001

Authors: Dalton Conley

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This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view--the streets, buses, and playgrounds--Honky poignantly illuminates the usual vulnerabilities of childhood complicated by unusual circumstances. As he narrates these sharply etched and often funny memories, Conley shows how race and class shaped his life and the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. A brilliant case study for illuminating the larger issues of inequality in American society, Honky brings us to a…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.88" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Prologue



Black Babies



Trajectories



Downward Mobility



Race Lessons



Fear



Learning Class



The Hawk



Getting Paid



Sesame Street



Welcome to America



No Soap Radio



Moving On Up



Disco Sucks



Addictions



Symmetry



Fire



Cultural Capital


Epilogue


Author's Note