An Analysis of Jay Macleod's Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neighborhood

ISBN-13: 9781912302109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 100 str.

Seiferle-Valencia, Anna

Opis

MacLeod's 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the Boston area to show how poor people who aspire to live the American Dream face many more obstacles than their middle-class counterparts.

Spis treści

Ways In to the Text  Who is Jay MacLeod?  What does Ain't No Makin' It Say?  Why does  Ain't No Makin' It Matter?  Section 1: Influences  Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  Module 2: Academic Context  Module 3: The Problem  Module 4: The Author's Contribution  Section 2: Ideas  Module 5: Main Ideas  Module 6: Secondary Ideas  Module 7: Achievement  Module 8: Place in the Author's Work  Section 3: Impact  Module 9: The First Responses  Module 10: The Evolving Debate  Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  Module 12: Where Next?  Glossary of Terms  People Mentioned in the Text  Works Cited

O autorze

Dr Anna Seiferle-Valencia holds a PhD in anthropology from Harvard.  She was formerly curator of Latin American Art at the Tuscon Museum of Art, Arizona.