Driving after Class by Rachel Heiman
Set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, the author takes us into people's homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time.
"Rachel Heiman displays great talent for squeezing ingenious and often compelling meanings out of everyday eventsThis, of course, is precisely the stuff of anthropology, the study of the ordinary... Heiman has done signal service by showing us how neoliberal sensibilities are inculcated and enacted in the banalities of daily life, an analysis that can give us clues about where to work for change." American Ethnologist "There is much to like about this book. What Heiman does particularly well is write with compassion and respect while maintaining her critical voice... Heiman takes the worries of the people of Danboro seriously and shows us their world as they see it. The book is better for it." American Journal of Sociology "Historically informed and attentive to local specificity, Heiman's book stands as a valuable exemplar of what native ethnography can look like and illustrates the value of turning the anthropological lens on a population often regarded as normative or against which others are created." North American Dialogue "We want these voices to matter because Heiman has engaged the most recent iteration of a central debate in U.S. history" Journal of the American Ethnological Society "One of the strengths of Driving after Class is Heiman's development of the vivid term "rugged entitlement." In many ways, rugged entitlement is the classed extension of the "American spirit," a structure of feeling that is pervasive in middle-class suburbs like Danboro." Contemporary Sociology "Clearly written and argued, this ethnography explores what it was like to be a middle-class American in the 1990s." Anthropologica "Heiman adopts a unique approach: she seeks to unearth the middle-class subjectivities produced out of, and fueling, these competing trends." American Sociological Association
Rachel Heiman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520277755 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520277759 |
| Title | Driving after Class |
| Author | Rachel Heiman |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2015-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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