Title Yo' mama's disfunktional! : fighting the culture wars in urban America / Robin D.G. Kelley.

Publication Info.	Boston : Beacon Press, [1997]
	©1997

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	305.896 K29Y	Check Shelf

Description	225 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index.
Contents	Ch. 1. Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto -- Ch. 2. Looking to Get Paid: How Some Black Youth Put Culture to Work -- Ch. 3. Looking Backward: The Limits of Self-Help Ideology -- Ch. 4. Looking Extremely Backward: Why the Enlightenment Will Only Lead Us Into the Dark -- Ch. 5. Looking Forward: How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America -- Epilogue: Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997.
Summary	Noted historian Robin D.G. Kelley is tired of people talking about his mama and folks like her. He's tired of victim-blaming critics and policies that pin most of our social ills on the black urban poor. In Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Kelley fights back. In this provocative and timely book, he examines how scholars, activists, policy makers, and displaced working people themselves have made sense of the contemporary ghetto. At the same time, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! gives voice to the very urban populations rendered silent by their attackers. He asks us to see culture and community as more than responses to, or products of, oppression. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book. Kelley reveals how new multiracial social movements emerging today have the potential of transforming the nation.
Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Urban poor -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Inner cities -- United States.
	African American families -- Social conditions.
	United States -- Race relations.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Government policy.
	African American families -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799157
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00799576
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Inner cities. (OCoLC)fst00973711
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Urban poor -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01162534
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Negers.
	Armoede.
	Steden.
	Cultuurconflicten.
Indexed Term	African American families Social conditions
	African Americans Civil rights Government policy
	African Americans Social conditions
	Inner cities United States
	United States Race relations
	Urban poor Social conditions United States
ISBN	0807009407
	9780807009406
	0807009415 (pbk.)
	9780807009413 (pbk.)

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