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The Minds of Marginalized Black Men : Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances / Alford A. Young.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 51Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691127002
  • 9781400841479
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.38896
LOC classification:
  • HV4046.C36
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead. It documents their definitions of good jobs and the good life--and their beliefs about whether and how these can be attained. In its pages, we meet men who think seriously about work, family, and community and whose differing experiences shape their views of their social world. Based on intensive interviews, the book reveals how these men have experienced varying degrees of exposure to more-privileged Americans--differences that ground their understandings of how racism and socioeconomic inequality determine their life chances. The poorest and most socially isolated are, perhaps surprisingly, most likely to believe that individuals can improve their own lot. By contrast, men who regularly leave their neighborhood tend to have a wider range of opportunities but also have met with more racism, hostility, and institutional obstacles--making them less likely to believe in the American Dream. Demonstrating how these men interpret their social world, this book seeks to de-pathologize them without ignoring their experiences with chronic unemployment, prison, and substance abuse. It shows how the men draw upon such experiences as they make meaning of the complex circumstances in which they strive to succeed.
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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

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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 from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead. It documents their definitions of good jobs and the good life--and their beliefs about whether and how these can be attained. In its pages, we meet men who think seriously about work, family, and community and whose differing experiences shape their views of their social world. Based on intensive interviews, the book reveals how these men have experienced varying degrees of exposure to more-privileged Americans--differences that ground their understandings of how racism and socioeconomic inequality determine their life chances. The poorest and most socially isolated are, perhaps surprisingly, most likely to believe that individuals can improve their own lot. By contrast, men who regularly leave their neighborhood tend to have a wider range of opportunities but also have met with more racism, hostility, and institutional obstacles--making them less likely to believe in the American Dream. Demonstrating how these men interpret their social world, this book seeks to de-pathologize them without ignoring their experiences with chronic unemployment, prison, and substance abuse. It shows how the men draw upon such experiences as they make meaning of the complex circumstances in which they strive to succeed.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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