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Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010 / Charles Murray.
Author
Murray, Charles A.
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Book
Language
English
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First paperback edition.
Published/Created
New York, N.Y. : Crown Forum, [2013]
©2013
Description
x, 417 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
E184.A1 M895 2013
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White people
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United States
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Social conditions
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White people
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United States
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Economic conditions
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Social classes
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United States
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Social mobility
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United States
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United States
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Social conditions
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1960-1980
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United States
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Social conditions
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1980-2020
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United States
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Economic conditions
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1945-
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Summary note
This critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass. In this book the author explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. The book demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship, a divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, the author argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. This divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.
Notes
Originally published in hardcover: 2012.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-408) and index.
Contents
November 21, 1963
The Formation of a New Upper Class. Our kind of people ; The foundations of the new upper class ; A new kind of segregation ; How thick is your bubble? ; The bright side of the new upper class.
The Formation of a New Lower Class. The founding virtues ; Belmont and Fishtown ; Marriage ; Industriousness ; Honesty ; Religiosity ; The real Fishtown
The size of the new lower class.
Why It Matters. The selective collapse of American community ; The founding virtues and the stuff of life ; One nation, divisible ; Alternative futures
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Supplemental material for the segregation chapter
Supplemental material for the chapter on Belmont and Fishtown
Supplemental material for the marriage chapter
Supplemental material for the honesty chapter
Supplemental material for the American community chapter
Supplemental material for the chapter about the founding virtues and the stuff of life.
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ISBN
9780307453433 ((pbk.))
030745343X ((pbk.))
LCCN
2012532031
OCLC
818450338
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