University of California Press
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
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- Ranita Ray
- University of California Press
- Paperback
- 9780520292062
- 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Social Science > Poverty & Homelessness
- English
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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 reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth's efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Author Bio
?Ray is an award winning author and sociologist. She is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and Maxine Baca-Zinn Endowed Chair at the University of New Mexico.
Ray researches, writes, and speaks about schooling and racial Domination, gendered racial violence in education, social mobility and racialized poverty, and reproductive justice.
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Education, Gender, Inequality
Education
Sociology, University of Connecticut (2013)
Source: University of New Mexico
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