1st Edition
Class Reunion The Remaking of the American White Working Class
By Lois Weis
Copyright 2004
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the... Read more
Series Editor's Introduction Introduction: In the Shadow of the Mills Part I: 1985 1. A Time of Pain: Young Men at Freeway High 2. A Time of Possibility: Young Women at Freeway High Part II: 2000 3. We Meet the Men Again 4. And the Beat Goes On: Those Men Who Stay 5. Revisiting a Moment of Critique: Freeway Girls All Grown Up 6. Picking up the Pieces and Moving Forward 7. Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: Men, Women, Whiteness and the New Economy Theoretical Coda Epilogue: Methods and Reflections Notes
Biography
Lois Weis is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of several books including The Unknown City, Beyond Black and White , Off White and Working Class without Work.
"Lois Weis captures the complexities and contradictions of life in white working-class families at the turn of the 21st century. In a richly theorized but highly readable text, she illuminates how raced, classed, and gendered identities are shaped by changes in the U.S. political economy. An important book!" -- Jean Anyon, author of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform
"Class Reunion vividly illustrates how class is lived and identity is shaped within a context of globalization and neoliberalism. Lois Weis offers significant insights into the importance of class at a time when so much work is diminishing its relevance to contemporary understandings of the present social and political conjuncture." -- Valerie Walkerdine, author of Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class
