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Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover. Number of Pages: 312. Weight: 1.19 lbs. Publication Date: 2015-01-16. Publisher: University of California Press.

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A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Having fled to the suburbs in search of affordable homes, open space, and better schools, city-raised parents found their modest homes eclipsed by McMansions, local schools and roads overburdened and underfunded, and their ability to keep up with the pressures of extravagant consumerism increasingly tenuous. How do class anxieties play out amid such disconcerting cultural, political, and economic changes? In this incisive ethnography set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, Rachel Heiman takes us into people's homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time. With a gift for bringing to life the everyday workings of class in the lives of children, youth, and their parents, Heiman offers an illuminating look at the contemporary complexities of class rooted in racialized lives, hyperconsumption, and neoliberal citizenship. She argues convincingly that to understand our current economic situation we need to attend to the subtle but forceful formation of sensibilities, spaces, and habits that durably motivate people and shape their actions and outlooks. "Rugged entitlement" is Heiman's name for the middle class's sense of entitlement to a way of life that is increasingly untenable and that is accompanied by an anxious feeling that they must vigilantly pursue their own interests to maintain and further their class position. Driving after Class is a model of fine-grained ethnography that shows how families try to make sense of who they are and where they are going in a highly competitive and uncertain time.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520277740
ISBN-13
9780520277748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201617210

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Book Title
Driving after Class : Anxious Times in an American Suburb
Author
Rachel Heiman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

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Series Volume Number
31
Lc Classification Number
Hn79.N53s6155 2015
Edition Number
1
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We want these voices to matter because Heiman has engaged the most recent iteration of a central debate in U.S. history, There is much to like about this book. What Heiman does particularly well is write with compassion and respect while maintaining her critical voice... Heiman takes the worries of the people of Danboro seriously and shows us their world as they see it. The book is better for it., Rachel Heiman displays great talent for squeezing ingenious and often compelling meanings out of everyday events. This, of course, is precisely the stuff of anthropology, the study of the ordinary.... Heiman has done signal service by showing us how neoliberal sensibilities are inculcated and enacted in the banalities of daily life, an analysis that can give us clues about where to work for change., One of the strengths of Driving after Class is Heiman's development of the vivid term ''rugged entitlement.'' In many ways, rugged entitlement is the classed extension of the ''American spirit,'' a structure of feeling that is pervasive in middle-class suburbs like Danboro., Historically informed and attentive to local specificity, Heiman's book stands as a valuable exemplar of what native ethnography can look like and illustrates the value of turning the anthropological lens on a population often regarded as normative or against which others are created., Clearly written and argued, this ethnography explores what it was like to be a middle-class American in the 1990s., Heiman displays great talent for squeezing ingenious and often compelling meanings out of everyday events., Creatively researched and well written, Driving after Class also has dense theoretical discussions in places., Heiman adopts a unique approach: she seeks to unearth the middle-class subjectivities produced out of, and fueling, these competing trends.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction: Common Sense in Anxious Times 1 2. Being Post-Brooklyn 33 3. Gate Expectations 70 4. Driving after Class 104 5. Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement 141 6. From White Flight to Community Might 171 7. A Conclusion, or Rather, a Commencement 219 Notes 233 References 233 Index 275
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-023241
Dewey Decimal
305.5/509749
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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