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Author Conley, Dalton, 1969-

Title Honky / Dalton Conley
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Contents Prologue -- 1. Black babies -- 2. Trajectories -- 3. Downward mobility -- 4. Race lessons -- 5. Fear -- 6. Learning class -- 7. The hawk -- 8. Getting paid -- 9. Sesame Street -- 10. Welcome to America -- 11. No soap radio -- 12. Moving on up -- 13. Disco sucks -- 14. Addictions -- 15. Symmetry -- 16. Fire -- 17. Cultural capital -- Epilogue -- Author's note
Summary Honky presents Dalton Conley's very personal account of his childhood as a white boy growing up in predominantly African American and Latino housing projects in New York's lower East Side in the 1960s and 1970s
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Children, White -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
White people -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York
White people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
Hispanic American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
Race awareness in children -- New York (State) -- New York
Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
African American children -- Social conditions
Race awareness in children
Social classes
Social conditions
White people
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520921733
0520921739
0585391130
9780585391137
0520215869
9780520215863
1597346608
9781597346603
9780520397842
0520397843