White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

by David James, Diane Reay, Gill Crozier, et al.

Book Overview

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The White Middle Classes in the Twenty-First Century - Identities Under Siege? 2. White Middle Class Identity Formation: Theory and Practice 3. Family History, Class Practices and Habitus 4. Habitus as a Sense of Place 5. Against-the-Grain School Choice in Neoliberal Times 6. A Darker Shade of Pale: Whiteness as Integral to Middle Class Identity 7. The Psychosocial: Ambivalences and Anxieties of Privilege 8. Young...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349308900
• ISBN13: 9781349308903
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"