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American Dream and the Power of Wealth

Heather Johnson
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American Dream
Asset Poverty
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belief in meritocracy analysis
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decisions
educational attainment
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family
Family Wealth
Fi Nancial Histories
Fi Nancial Safety Net
Fi Reman
gap
Hermosa Beach
Individual Hard Work
inequality
Inter-generational Transfers
intergenerational
Intergenerational Inequalities
Intergenerational Transfers
Judicious Case
nance
North Carolinians
parental influence research
Peter's Parents
Peter’s Parents
Poor Black Families
privilege
qualitative interviews
race and class studies
racial
Racial Wealth Gap
school
School Decisions
Silent Pause
Social Reproduction
social stratification
socioeconomic mobility
Stratification Beliefs
transfers
Unequal Education
Wealth Gap
Wealth Inequality
Wealth Privilege
White Families

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415832670
  • Weight: 385g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Dec 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial constraints placed upon them at birth. In the first edition, Heather Beth Johnson explored this belief in the American Dream with over 200 in-depth interviews with black and white families, highlighting the ever-increasing racial wealth gap and the actual inequality in opportunities. This second edition has been updated to make it fully relevant to today’s reader, with new data and illustrative examples, including twenty new interviews. Johnson asks not just what parents are thinking about inequality and the American Dream, but to what extent children believe in the American Dream and how they explain, justify, and understand the stratification of American society. This book is an ideal addition to courses on race and inequality.

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