Race and Upward Mobility: Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America

by Elda Maria Roman

Book Overview

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle class" and "upward mobility"-often associated with assimilation, selling out, or political conservatism-can hold negative connotations in literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503603784
• ISBN13: 9781503603783
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"