Facing up to the American dream : race, class, and the soul of the nation
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Facing up to the American dream : race, class, and the soul of the nation
（Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international, and comparative perspectives）
Princeton University Press, c1995
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Bibliography: p. [341]-397
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内容説明
The ideology of the American dream - the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort - is the very soul of the American nation. This book argues that Americans have failed to face up to what that dream requires of their society, and yet they possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. This text attributes America's national distress to the ways in which white and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960's white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race.
Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their
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Tables and Figure Ch. 1 What Is the American Dream? Ch. 2 Rich and Poor African Americans Ch. 3 "What's All the Fuss About?": Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs about the American Dream Ch. 4 "Succeeding More" and "Under the Spell": Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream Ch. 5 Beliefs about One's Own Life Ch. 6 Beliefs about Others Ch. 7 Competitive Success and Collective Well being Ch. 8 Remaining under the Spell Ch. 9 With One Part of Themselves They Actually Believe Ch. 10 Distorting the Dream Ch. 11 Breaking the Spell Ch. 12 The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values Ch. 13 Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants Ch. 14 The Future of the American Dream Appendix A Surveys Used for Unpublished Tabulations Appendix B Supplemental Tables Notes Works Cited Index
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