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america
american history
anthropologists
anthropology
Author_Maria Kefalas
beltway
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chicago
chicago school
community
cultural geography
cultural historians
cultural perspective
demographic studies
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ethnographers
firefighters
home
local history
neighborhood
office workers
police officers
regional history
sociologists
sociology
southwest side chicago
stay at home mothers
urban studies
white working class
working class
working class community
Product details
- ISBN 9780520235434
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.
Maria Kefalas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University.
