Ain't No Makin' It by MacLeod, Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Praise Title Page PREFACE Acknowledgements PART ONE - THE HALLWAY HANGERS AND THE BROTHERS AS TEENAGERS

1 - SOCIAL IMMOBILITY IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY 2 - SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

3 - TEENAGERS IN CLARENDON HEIGHTS The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers

THE HALLWAY HANGERS: “YOU GOTTA BE BAD” THE BROTHERS: CONSPICUOUS BY THEIR CONVENTIONALITY

4 - THE INFLUENCE OF THE FAMILY

THE HALLWAY HANGERS’ HOUSEHOLDS THE BROTHERS’ FAMILIES

5 - THE WORLD OF WORK Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers

THE HALLWAY HANGERS: KEEPING A LID ON HOPE THE BROTHERS: READY AT THE STARTING LINE

6 - SCHOOL Preparing for the Competition

THE BROTHERS: CONFORMITY AND COMPLIANCE THE HALLWAY HANGERS: TEACHER’S NIGHTMARE THE UNDERLYING LOGIC OF STUDENT BEHAVIOR Swallowing the Achievement Ideology Spurning the Achievement Ideology

7 - LEVELED ASPIRATIONS Social Reproduction Takes Its To

8 - REPRODUCTION THEORY RECONSIDERED

BUILDING ON BOURDIEU FROM ETHNOGRAPHY TO THEORY INDIVIDUALS IN THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE CULTURAL AUTONOMY WITHIN STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS

PART TWO - EIGHT YEARS LATER Low Income, Low Outcome

9 - THE HALLWAY HANGERS Dealing in Despair

ON THE JOB WORKING THE STREET PRODUCING THEMSELVES

10 - THE BROTHERS Dreams Deferred

SHORTCHANGED ON THE LABOR MARKET SOLD ON SCHOOL ASPIRATION AND OUTCOME: WHAT WENT WRONG? Racism Caught in Cultural Limbo GROPING FOR THE GOOD LIFE

11 - CONCLUSION Outclassed and Outcast(e)

POVERTY: A CLASS ISSUE RACIAL DOMINATION: INVIDIOUS BUT INVISIBLE RACE VERSUS CLASS: CAN THEY BE UNTANGLED? STRUCTURE VERSUS AGENCY: “NO ONE TO BLAME BUT ME” WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Whose Welfare? Better Schools? CLASS DISMISSED

PART THREE - AIN’T NO MAKIN’ IT? The Men at Midlife

12 - THE HALLWAY HANGERS Weeble, Wobble, but We Don’t Fall Down

FRANKIE JINX SHORTY STEVE STONEY CHRIS SLICK

13 - THE BROTHERS Finally Finding a Foothold

MOKEY SUPER MIKE JUAN JAMES DEREK

14 - REPRODUCTION, REDEMPTION, AND RESPECT

Analysis by Katherine McClelland and David Karen The Organization of This Chapter SO . . . HAVE THEY MADE IT? CAPITAL ON THE LABOR MARKET THE PATH TO DOWN AND OUT: DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND CRIME RACE AND RACISM FAMILY: SETTLING DOWN AND MOVING OUT THE MEANING OF (IM)MOBILITY CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS? SEEKING REDEMPTION THE NEXT GENERATION CONCLUSION

AFTERWORD APPENDIX 1 - On the Making of Ain’t No Makin’ It APPENDIX 2 - Biographical Sketches of the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers in 2006 BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE BOOK ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX Copyright Page