Ain't no makin' it : aspirations and attainment in a low-income neighborhood

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The author immersed himself in the teenage underworld of Clarendon Heights. The Hallway Hangers, one of the neighborhood cliques, appear as cynical self-destructive hoodlums. The other group, the Brothers, take the American Dream to heart and aspire to middle-class respectability. The twist is that...

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Main Author: MacLeod, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Urban poor > United States > Case studies.
Youth with social disabilities > United States > Case studies.
Social mobility > United States > Case studies.
Equality > United States > Case studies.
71.68 socially handicapped.
Equality.
Social mobility.
Urban poor.
Youth with social disabilities.
Armut
Jongeren.
Achterbuurten.
Levensloop.
Sociale mobiliteit.
United States.
USA.
Case studies.
Longitudinal researches (form)

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