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26 mai 2003

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9780822387374

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English

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Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates' recollected experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, also written about in the novels of Philip Roth, Weequahic High School's most famous alum. Ortner provides a chronicle of the journey of her classmates from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the wealthy upper-middle or professional/managerial class.Ortner tracked down nearly all 304 of her classmates. She interviewedabout 100 in person and spoke with most of the rest by phone, recording her classmates' vivid memories of time, place, and identity. Ortner shows how social class affected people's livesin many hidden and unexamined ways. She also demonstrates that the Class of '58's extreme upward mobility must be understood in relation to the major identity movements of the twentieth century-the campaign against anti-Semitism, the Civil Rights movement, and feminism.A multisited study combining field research with an interdisciplinary analytical framework, New Jersey Dreaming is a masterly integration of developments at the vanguard of contemporary anthropology. Engaging excerpts from Ortner's field notes are interspersed throughout the book. Whether recording the difficulties and pleasures of studying one's own peer group, the cultures of driving in different parts of the country, or the contrasting experiences of appointment-making in Los Angeles and New York, they provide a rare glimpse into the actual doing of ethnographic research.

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

26 mai 2003

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822387374

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

New Jersey Dreaming

Sherry B. Ortner

New Jersey Dreaming

Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’

Duke University Press Durham and London 

Second printing, 

of America on acid-free paper 

Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Printed in the United States

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data appear on the last printed page of this book

To my father,

Samuel Ortner,

in memoriam

To Gwen, as always

To Tim, for everything

With love to all

Contents

List of Tables and Map ix Acknowledgments xi Letter to the Class of ’ xv

. Introduction  A Genealogy of the Present / The Class of ’ and the Question of Class / The Research / The Native Ethnographer / Project Journal : Getting Started

      ’ . Reading Class  Families and Class / Behind Closed Doors / Hiding in Plain Sight / Project Journal : Florida . Drawing Boundaries  To Melt or Not? /The Ethnic Story / The Class Story / Project Journal : Los Angeles . Dealing with Boundaries  The Others / Overt Racism / Race and Ethnic Relations at Weequahic / Internalizing Limits / Survival Strategies / Project Journal : New Jersey

. American High Schools  Memories and Categories / Deconstructing High School / High School Types across Time and Space / Permutations of the Structure / Project Journal : New York

. Weequahic  The Top of the Table: High-Capital Kids and Popularity / The Lower Half of the Table: Low-Capital Kids and Resistance / Identities I: The Wildness of the Tame / Identities II: The Tameness of the Wild / Project Journal : New Jersey

. Tracks  Weequahic qua School / College Prep? / Cultural Capital / College as a Cultural System / Gender Tracks / Project Journal : New Jersey

viiiContents     ’  . Counterlives  Earlier Causes / The Other Fifties / The Sixties / Project Journal : New Jersey . Money  Success / Upward Mobility / The Success of Jewish Men / High-Capital Jewish Boys / Downward Mobility / Low-Capital Jewish Boys / Mobility, Agency, and History / Project Journal : Children of the Class of ’, New Jersey

. Happiness  Zero College / Success II: Happiness / Project Journal : Children of the Class of ’ (LA and Other Far-ﬂung Places, Including New Jersey)

. Liberation  Women and Higher Education / Class of ’ Women and the Feminist Movement / Divorce / Careers / Succeeding in Nontraditional Careers / Project Journal : Endgame . Late Capitalism  The Class of ’ and the Making of Late Capitalism / The Growth of the / Race Again Appendix . Finding People, by Judy Epstein Rothbard  Appendix . In Memoriam  Appendix . Lost Classmates  Appendix . The Class of ’ Today  Notes  Works Cited  Index 

List of Tables and Map

. Median Family Income, –  . Class Distribution of the Natal Families of the Class of ’  . Mothers of the Class of ’ Working Outside the Home  . Family Disruption by Class  . Grammar School Origins of the Class of ’  . The Underlying Structure of High School Social Categories  . The Class of ’ by Tracks  . Tracks by Race and Ethnicity  . Race/Ethnicity by Track  . The Underlying Structure of College Choices  . Tracks by Gender  . Class Origins of the Class of ’ in Relation to Present Class Position  . College Degree or Beyond by Race/Ethnicity and Gender  . Zero College by Race/Ethnicity  . Types of College Education by Class and Gender  . Girls’ Degrees by Parents’ Class  . Lucrative/Prestigious Post-Bachelors Degrees by Type of College and Gender  . Divorce Rates by Ethnicity  . Divorce Rates by Class and Gender  . Present Occupations of Women of the Class of ’  . Class of ’ Women’s Occupations Today by Type of Postsecondary Education  . Class Conﬁgurations of Class of ’ Parents and the Class of ’ Itself  . Mortality Rates by Race/Ethnicity and Gender  . Class Proﬁle of the Class of ’ Today  Map of Southwest Newark, New Jersey 

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