Facing up to the American dream : race, class, and the soul of the nation / Jennifer L. Hochschild.
Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960s, white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have beco...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- What is the American dream?
- Rich and poor African Americans
- "What's all the fuss about?": Blacks' and Whites' beliefs about the American dream
- "Succeeding more" and "under the spell": affluent and poor Blacks' beliefs about the American dream
- Beliefs about one's own life
- Beliefs about others
- Competitive success and collective well-being
- Remaining under the spell
- With one part of themselves they actually believe
- Distorting the dream
- Breaking the spell
- The perversity of race and fluidity of values
- Comparing Blacks and White immigrants
- The future of the American dream.