Ain't No Makin' It

p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Jay MacLeod is a parish priest in England. Combining Christian ministry with community work, MacLeod still plays streetball, or tries to. His working-class parish is one of the most ethnically diverse square miles in Britain, and MacLeod works closely with members of the local mosques to engage disaffected teenagers and to foster friendships across the lines of race and religion. He and his wife, Sally Asher, have three children- Asher, Kate, and Toby.

• Preface (new, from the author); Acknowledgements; Part One The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers; 1 Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity; 2 Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective; Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: Schooled by Social Class; Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and Habitus; Basil Bernstein and Shirley Brice Heath: Linguistic Cultural Capital; Paul Willis: The Lads and the Ear'oles; Henry Giroux: Student Resistance to School; Social Reproduction in Clarendon Heights; 3 Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers; The Hallway Hangers: "You Gotta Be Bad"; The Brothers: Conspicuous by Their Conventionality; 4 The Influence of the Family; The Hallway Hangers' Households; The Brothers' Families; 5 The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers; The Hallway Hangers: Keeping a Lid on Hope; The Brothers: Ready at the Starting Line; 6 School: Preparing for the Competition; The Brothers: Conformity and Compliance; The Hallway Hangers: Teacher's Nightmare; The Underlying Logic of Student Behavior; 7 Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll; The Hallway Hangers: Internalizing Probabilities, Rescuing Self-Esteem; The Brothers: Internalizing Failure, Shorn of Self-Esteem; The Sources of Variation; 8 Reproduction Theory Reconsidered; Building on Bourdieu; From Ethnography to Theory; Individuals in the Social Landscape; Cultural Autonomy Within Structural Constraints; Part Two Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome; 9 The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair; On the Job; Working the Street; Producing Themselves; 10 The Brothers: Dreams Deferred; Shortchanged on the Labor Market; Sold on School; Aspiration and Outcome: What Went Wrong?; Groping for the Good Life; 11 Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(e); Poverty: A Class Issue; Racial Domination: Invidious but Invisible; Race Versus Class: Can They Be Untangled?; Structure Versus Agency: "No One to Blame but Me"; What Is to Be Done?; Class Dismissed; Part Three: Ain't No Makin' It? Returning to the Hallway Hangers and Brothers; Introduction from Jay MacLeod: The Hangers and Brothers revisited; 12 The Hallway Hangers: Fighting for a Foothold at Forty; Chris; Shorty; Stoney; Frankie; Slick; Jinx; Steve; 13 The Brothers: Barely Making It; Each will have a brief intro from Jay; Derek; Mokey; Juan; James; Mike; Super; 14 Making Sense of the Stories, by Katherine McClelland (Franklin & Marshall College) and David Karen (Bryn Mawr College); The Family Trees; Appendix A: On the Making of Ain't No Makin' It?; Fieldwork: Doubts, Dilemmas, and Discoveries; Second Harvest: Notes on the 1991 Field Experience; Part Three Fieldwork: Return to Clarendon Heights; Appendix B: Biographical Sketches; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index.