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Honky

Conley, Dalton 1969- (Author).

Summary: Publisher Fact Sheet An intensely personal memoir & coming-of-age story of a white boy (now Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University) growing up in the predominantly African American & Latino housing projects of New York's Lower East Side.

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  • ISBN: 0520215869 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780520215863 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 231 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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      Gainesville Branch 		305.23 CONLEY ( Send Text)
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