Katherine S. Newman

A Different Shade of Gray: Mid-Life and Beyond in the Inner City

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Classic works by William Julius Wilson and Alex Kotlowitz have given Americans searing accounts of coming of age amid urban poverty. Now Katherine Newman, Kennedy School professor and author of No Shame in My Game, a book about the working poor that Publishers Weekly called eye-opening and bracingly refreshing, shifts our attention to the other end of the human life span, offering the first comprehensive look at aging in the inner city.While recent prosperity has allowed many to enjoy their old age in the comfort of retirement communities, a combination of historical circumstances, personal decisions, and changing public policy have conspire… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56584-615-9
EAN: 9781565846159
Produktnummer: 9825896
Verlag: New Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.3 cm 644 g
Gewicht: 644

Über den Autor

Katherine S. Newman is professor of sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. A widely published expert on poverty and the working poor, she was previously the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes '41 Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the department of sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of several books on urban poverty, including No Shame in My Game, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize and the Sidney Hillman Book Award in 2000, and A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City (The New Press). She is a co-author, with Victor Tan Chen, of The Missing Class.