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The young people defined as Gen Xers in the media and popular imagination almost never include poor or working-class young adults. These young people - a huge and important part of our society - are misrepresented and silent in our national conversation. In The Unknown City, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults (ages 23 to 35), based on hundreds of interviews. We discover their views on everything from the construction of whiteness and affirmative action to the economy, education, and new public spaces of community hope. Finally, Fine and Weis point to what is being done and what should be done in terms of national policy to improve the future of these remarkable women and men.
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The Unknown City : Lives of Poor and Working-class Young Adults
author
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Fine, Michelle.; Weis, Lois.
publisher
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Beacon Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807041130
print isbn13
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9780807041130
ebook isbn13
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9780807041260
language
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English
subject
Young adults--New York (State)--Buffalo--Social conditions, Young adults--New Jersey--Jersey City--Social conditions, Working class--New York (State)--Buffalo, Working class--New Jersey--Jersey City, Urban poor--New York (State)--Buffalo, Urban poor--New
publication date
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1998
lcc
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HQ799.73.B83U54 1998eb
ddc
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305.235/0973
subject
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Young adults--New York (State)--Buffalo--Social conditions, Young adults--New Jersey--Jersey City--Social conditions, Working class--New York (State)--Buffalo, Working class--New Jersey--Jersey City, Urban poor--New York (State)--Buffalo, Urban poor--New
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The Unknown City
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Also by Lois Weis Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools (with Maxine Seller) Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-Industrializing Economy
Also by Michelle Fine Becoming Gentlemen (with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin) Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School
Also by Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race and Gender in United States Schools Off White: Readings in Race, Power and Society (with Linda Powell and Mun Wong)
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The Unknown City
Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults
Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1998 by Michelle Fine and Lois Weis All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
03 02 01 00 8 7 6 5 4 3
This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper ANSI/NISO specifications for permanence as revised in 1992.
Text design by Lucinda L. Hitchcock Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Chapter 2 was published in a somewhat different form in the Anthropology and Education Review. A version of the Epilogue was previously published in Qualitative Inquiry, and a more theoretically based version of chapter 3 was published in Off White (Routledge, 1997).
"nuyorican" by Tato Laviera is reprinted with permission from the publisher of AmeRcan (Houston: Arte Pblico PressUniversity of Houston, 1985).
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA The unknown city : lives of poor and working-class young adults / [compiled by] Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8070-4112-2 (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-4113-0 (paper) 1. Young adults New York (State) Buffalo Social conditions. 2. Young adults New Jersey Jersey City Social conditions. 3. Working class New York (State) Buffalo. 4. Working class New Jersey Jersey City. 5. Urban poor New York (State) Buffalo. 6. Urban poor New Jersey Jersey City. 7. Buffalo (N.Y.) Social conditions. 8. Buffalo (N.Y.) Economic conditions. 9. Jersey City (N.J.) Social conditions. I. Fine, Michelle. II. Weis, Lois. HQ799.73.B83U55 1998 305.235'0973dc21 9737193
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It's been a busy year lots of graduations [referring to her daughter's and nephew's graduation from high school]. But I tell you, I'm so happy for these kids. I just hope they do the right thing and go to college. 'Cause there's nothing out here... nothing, I tell you. I just hate to turn on the news, 'cause every time you turn around, somebody out here is getting killed. Diane, an African American woman in Buffalo
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Contents
This project could not have been completed without the help of our students. Their names follow the chapters to which they contributed.
Acknowledgments
ix
1 Voices of Hope and Despair Introduction
1
2 Narrating the 1980s and 1990s Voices of White and African American Men
16
3 Loss of Privilege inside White, Working-Class Masculinity
With Amira Proweller and Craig Centrie
39
4 "To Stand Up and Be Men" Black Males Rewriting Social Representations
With Tracey Shepherd and Kenny Foster
59
5 "It's a Small Frog That Will Never Leave Puerto Rico" Puerto Rican Men and the Struggle for Place in the United States
With Craig Centrie and Juan Valentin-Juarbe
84
6 Cops, Crime, and Violence
108
7 "I've Slept in Clothes Long Enough" Domestic Violence among Women in the White Working Class
With Amira Proweller, Corrine Bertram, and Julia Maruza
133
8 "Food in Our Stomachs and a Roof Overhead" African American Women Crossing Borders
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