Ain't No Makin' It

by MacLeod, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780813315157
• ISBN10: 0813315158
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-11
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

This expanded edition of Jay MacLeod's landmark study adds three new chapters that follow the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers into adulthood.

Author Biography

A Rhodes scholar, Jay MacLeod holds degrees in social studies and theology. He and his wife, Sally Asher, spent four years in Mississippi, where their work with local teenagers led to the publication of Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, An Oral History (WestviewPress). MacLeod is now an Anglican priest in Chesterfield, a declining mining and market town in Asher's native England.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers	p. 1
Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity	p. 3
Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective	p. 11
Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers	p. 25
The Influence of the Family	p. 50
The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers	p. 61
School: Preparing for the Competition	p. 83
Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll	p. 112
Reproduction Theory Reconsidered	p. 135
Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome	p. 153
The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair	p. 155
The Brothers: Dreams Deferred	p. 196
Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast (e)	p. 239
Notes	p. 268
Appendix: On the Making of Ain't No Makin' It	p. 270
Notes	p. 302
Bibliography	p. 303
About the Book and Author	p. 310
Index	p. 311
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