ISBN:
9780520277748
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (743 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
California Series in Public Anthropology v.31
Parallel Title:
Print version Driving after Class : Anxious Times in an American Suburb
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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