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Coming of Age in the Other America by Clampet-Lundquist, Susan;DeLuca, Stefanie;Edin, Kathryn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from ten years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nations poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage. Coming of Age in the Other America illuminates the profound effects of neighborhoods on impoverished families. The authors conducted in-depth interviews and fieldwork with 150 young adults, and found that those who had been able to move to better neighborhoodseither as part of the Moving to Opportunity program or by other meansachieved much higher rates of high sc

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Author

Clampet-Lundquist, Susan;DeLuca, Stefanie;Edin, Kathryn

Publisher

Russell Sage Foundation

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871544650

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Gender Studies, Science