Class Reunion
Subtitle: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (Critical Social Thought)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415949071
Subjects: Social Classes; Social Science; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; General; Economic conditions; Longitudinal studies; Social conditions; United States; Working class; Working class whites
First sentence: White male adolescent working-class identity in Freeway is forged along three primary axes: (1) an emerging contradictory code of respect toward school knowledge and culture not in evidence in key previous studies of white working-class male youth; (2) a set of virulently patriarchal constructions of home/family life which position future wives in particular kinds of subordinate relationships; and (3) constructed notions of African Americans and Yemenites ("Arabians"), which are intensely racist and which split along distinct gender lines.