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Newman's
No Shame in My Game reminded me of another book that I used in
class several years ago: Black Picket Fences: Privilege
and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (Patillo-McCoy,
1999).
Because I used
both Newman and Patillo-McCoy during the same semester, my students found the
books too overlapping (and I had to agree).
Last year, my
Social Problems class read Why are all the black kids sitting together in
the cafeteria? (Beverly Tatum, 1997). The book was too micro and
psychological for my taste, but most of my students enjoyed
it.
I haven't used
any of the following books for classes, but they might be good for Social
Problems courses:
-
Television
Families: Is Something Wrong in Suburbia? (William Douglas,
2003)
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Earning
More and Getting Less: Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality
(Veronica Tichenor, 2005)
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Without a
Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America (Michelle
Kennedy, 2005)
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The 9/11
Commission Report...(on terrorist attacks against the
US) (2004)
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Family
violence in the United States:
Defining, understanding, and combating abuse (Hines and
Malley-Morrison, 2005).
niki
benokraitis
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Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:23
AM
Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: secondary readings
for Social Problems
Or, Katherine Newman's No Shame in My Game: The Working
Poor in the Inner City. and Jeremy Rifkin's, The End of the Work: The Decline
of the Global Labor Force adn the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.
>>> "Julie Setele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/13/06 1:30
AM >>>
karen, i recommend:
Joseph T. Hallinan's
*Going Up the River: travels in a prison nation*
(2003; 224pp
text)
David K. Shipler's *The Working Poor: invisible in America*
(2004; 308pp text)
best,
julie
>
> This
is a Social Problems 300 level course. I am looking for secoondary
>
books for this course. I am considering Fast food nation, Nickle
and
> Dimed in America and Shattered Lives. As this book is supplemental
to the
> text, I am seeking books that are short (250-300 pgs) and focus
on the
> educational crisis, aging issues, or crime/gangs.
Jonathan Kozol's book
> on education are great, but they are too long
for my needs.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Karen Colvin
> University of
Baltimore
________________________________________________________________
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Setele
Department of Sociology
University of California, Davis
One
Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616
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