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Honky
This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view--the streets, buses, and playgrounds--Honky poignantly illuminates the usual vulnerabilities of childhood complicated by unusual circumstances. As he narrates these sharply etched and often funny memories, Conley shows how race and class shaped his life and the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. A brilliant case study for illuminating the larger issues of inequality in American society, Honky brings us to a deeper understanding of the privilege of whiteness, the social construction of race, the power of education, and the challenges of inner-city life. Conley's story provides a sophisticated example of the crucial role culture plays in defining race and class. Both of Conley's parents retained the "cultural capital" of the white middle class, and they passed this on to their son in the form of tastes, educational expectations, and a general sense of privilege. It is these advantages that ultimately provide Conley with his ticket to higher education and beyond. A tremendously good read, Honky addresses issues both timely and timeless that pertain to us all.


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Title of ebook: Honky
ISBN: 9780520900264
parent-ISBN: 9780520215863
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages: 243
Published: 10-2000
Released online for download: 10-01-2000
Author of eBook: Conley, Dalton

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Contents

Prologue............................................................xi one Black Babies....................................................1 two Trajectories....................................................9 three Downward Mobility............................................19 four Race Lessons..................................................37 five Fear..........................................................55 six Learning Class.................................................67 seven The Hawk.....................................................79 eight Getting Paid.................................................97 nine Sesame Street................................................111 ten Welcome to America............................................121 eleven No Soap Radio..............................................133 twelve Moving On Up...............................................143 thirteen Disco Sucks..............................................151 fourteen Addictions...............................................165 fifteen Symmetry..................................................177 sixteen Fire......................................................191 seventeen Cultural Capital.......................... ... read full excerpt from: Honky ebook



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