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Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb
Rachel Heiman
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Paperback. Set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, the author 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. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology
Condition
New
Weight
439 g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520277755
SKU
V9780520277755
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About Rachel Heiman
Rachel Heiman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School.
Reviews for Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb
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 ... Read more