Honky
By: Dalton Conley.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Children, White -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Whites -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York; Whites -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Hispanic American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Race awareness in children -- New York (State) -- New York; Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, and playgrounds - Honky illuminates the usual vulnerabilities of childhood complicated by unusual circumstances. As he narrates these sharply etched and often funny memories, Conley shows how race and class shaped his life and the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. A case study for illuminating the larger issues of inequality in American society, Honky brings us to a deeper understanding of the privilege of whiteness, the social construction of race, the power of education, and the challenges of inner-city life."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: 1.; title: Black babies -- -- 2.; title: Trajectories -- -- 3.; title: Downward mobility -- -- 4.; title: Race lessons -- -- 5.; title: Fear -- -- 6.; title: Learning class -- -- 7. The; title: hawk -- -- 8.; title: Getting paid -- -- 9.; title: Sesame Street -- -- 10.; title: Welcome to America -- -- 11.; title: No soap radio -- -- 12.; title: Moving on up -- -- 13.; title: Disco sucks -- -- 14.; title: Addictions -- -- 15.; title: Symmetry -- -- 16.; title: Fire -- -- 17.; title: Cultural capital --Epilogue --Author's note.