Ain't No Makin' It : Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin

Ain't No Makin' It

Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin

By
Jay MacLeod
Jay MacLeod
344 pages

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326 books

Nonfiction

bugbear
Adam
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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63 books

Race

bugbear
Adam
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
A convenient hatred
Shortcomings
Notes of a Native Son
Beloved
The Other Side of the River

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23 books

Political Economy

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Adam
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy
An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy
The Promise of Access

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22 books

Urban Studies

bugbear
Adam
Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
America on Fire
We Own This City
Happy City

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15 books

Sociology

bugbear
Adam
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Educated Underclass: Students and the False Promise of Social Mobility
Behind the Screen
The Invisible Heart
Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie
White Logic, White Methods

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8 books

North America

bugbear
Adam
This Vast Southern Empire
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
North Woods
Harvest of Empire
Ain't No Makin' It : Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut