In this Book
- The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting their struggles to balance school and work while keeping commitments to family, friends, and lovers. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth’s efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- 2. Port City Rising from the Ashes
- pp. 28-40
- 3. Sibling Ties
- pp. 41-73
- 4. Risky Love
- pp. 74-104
- 5. Saved by College
- pp. 105-139
- 6. The Making of a Teenage Service Class
- pp. 140-174
- 8. Uncertain Success
- pp. 202-220
- 9. Dismantling the “At Risk” Discourse
- pp. 221-237
- Bibliography
- pp. 263-278
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520965614
Related ISBN(s)
9780520292055, 9780520292062
MARC Record
OCLC
1005226571
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No