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Winner of the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Winner of the 2020 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Section on Race, Gender, and Class Finalist, 2020. Bourdieu Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Education In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting their struggles to balance school and work while keeping commitments to family, friends, and lovers. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy rein

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Author

Ranita Ray

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520292062

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Science, Education