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Driving after Class Anxious Times in an American Suburb. Cover Image E-book E-book

Driving after Class [electronic resource] : Anxious Times in an American Suburb.

Heiman, Rachel. (Author).

Summary:

A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Having fled to the suburbs in search of affordable homes, open space, and better schools, city-raised parents found their modest homes eclipsed by McMansions, local schools and roads overburdened and underfunded, and their ability to keep up with the pressures of extravagant consumerism increasingly tenuous. How do class anxieties play out amid such disconcerting cultural, political, and economic ch.

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  • ISBN: 9780520960312
  • ISBN: 0520960319
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (743 pages).
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:march.16
CatMonthString:august.17
Multi-User.
AC-SUB
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Common Sense in Anxious Times; 2. Being Post-Brooklyn; 3. Gate Expectations; 4. Driving after Class; 5. Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement; 6. From White Flight to Community Might; 7. A Conclusion, or Rather, a Commencement; Notes; References; Index.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Suburban life.
Middle class > New Jersey.
Suburban life > New Jersey.
Social classes > New Jersey.
Social classes > New Jersey.
New Jersey > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Social classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Suburban life > New Jersey.
Middle class > New Jersey.
Middle class.
New Jersey > Social conditions.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.


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