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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers | |
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| Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity | |
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| Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective | |
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| Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: Schooled by Social Class | |
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| Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and Habitus | |
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| Basil Bernstein and Shirley Brice Heath: Linguistic Cultural Capital | |
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| Paul Willis: The Lads and the Ear'oles | |
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| Henry Giroux: Student Resistance to School | |
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| Social Reproduction in Clarendon Heights | |
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| Notes | |
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| Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: "You Gotta Be Bad" | |
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| The Brothers: Conspicuous by Their Conventionality | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Influence of the Family | |
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| The Hallway Hangers' Households | |
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| The Brothers' Families | |
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| Notes | |
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| The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: Keeping a Lid on Hope | |
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| The Brothers: Ready at the Starting Line | |
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| Notes | |
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| School: Preparing for the Competition | |
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| The Brothers: Conformity and Compliance | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: Teacher's Nightmare | |
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| The Underlying Logic of Student Behavior | |
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| Notes | |
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| Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: Internalizing Probabilities, Rescuing Self-Esteem | |
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| The Brothers: Internalizing Failure, Shorn of Self-Esteem | |
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| The Sources of Variation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reproduction Theory Reconsidered | |
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| Building on Bourdieu | |
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| From Ethnography to Theory | |
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| Individuals in the Social Landscape | |
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| Cultural Autonomy within Structural Constraints | |
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| Notes | |
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| Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair | |
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| On the Job | |
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| Working the Street | |
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| Producing Themselves | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Brothers: Dreams Deferred | |
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| Shortchanged on the Labor Market | |
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| Sold on School | |
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| Aspiration and Outcome: What Went Wrong? | |
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| Groping for the Good Life | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(E) | |
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| Poverty: A Class Issue | |
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| Racial Domination: Invidious but Invisible | |
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| Race Versus Class: Can They Be Untangled? | |
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| Structure Versus Agency: "No One to Blame but Me" | |
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| What Is to Be Done? | |
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| Class Dismissed | |
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| Notes | |
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| Ain't no Makin' It? The Men at Midlife | |
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| The Hallway Hangers: Weeble, Wobble, But We Don't Fall Down | |
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| Frankie: Connected | |
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| Jinx: Stuck Around | |
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| Shorty: All Bull Work | |
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| Steve: My Life Sucks | |
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| Stoney: Saved by the Drum | |
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| Chris: Back Down at the Bottom | |
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| Slick: Head Up High | |
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| The Brothers: Finally Finding a Foothold | |
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| Mokey: Manager | |
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| Super: Hustler | |
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| Mike: Buyer and Broker | |
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| Juan: Mechanic | |
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| James: Programmer | |
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| Derek: Trainer | |
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| Reproduction, Redemption, and Respect | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Analysis | |
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| So ... Have They Made It? | |
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| Capital on the Labor Market | |
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| The Path to Down and Out: Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime | |
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| Race and Racism | |
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| Family: Settling Down and Moving Out | |
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| The Meaning of (Im)Mobility | |
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| Class Consciousness? | |
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| Seeking Redemption | |
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| The Next Generation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Afterword: Freddie's Final Say | |
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| On the Making of Ain't No Makin' It | |
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| Fieldwork: Doubts, Dilemmas, and Discoveries | |
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| Second Harvest: Notes on the 1991 Field Experience | |
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| Confessions: Clarendon Heights Revisited | |
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| Notes | |
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| Biographical Sketches of the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers in 2006 | |
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| The Hallway Hangers | |
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| The Brothers | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Book | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Index | |