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Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Photos -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Data, Theory, and the Literature -- Auto-ethnography -- What Is New Here? -- Organization of the Book -- Educational Reality: A Comparison -- The Site and the Community: City Line, Brooklyn, USA -- Demographic Tables -- Appendix -- Data Tables (by Census Tract and Year) -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Where Does the Concrete End? The Local Context of the Hidden Injuries of Class -- Beginnings: Residences, Community, and Stoops -- Neighborhood Density and Apartment Layouts -- The "Avenue": Its Effects on a Working-Class Community -- Gangs -- The Neighborhood and Race/Ethnicity -- The Families: The Working Class Working Hard -- The Later Years and Alcoholism -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Education: The Hidden Injuries of Class Begin in Earnest -- Elementary School -- High School -- College and Beyond -- Graduate School -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Previous Research on Education and The Hidden Injuries of Class. My Educational Career Compared -- Social Class and Parental Attitudes Toward Education: Resistance and Conformity to Schooling in the Family -- Literature: Disparate Explanations and Findings -- Data Collection -- Findings: Working-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Resistance -- Notes on the Hidden Injuries of Class -- Working-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Conformity -- Variations on the Working-Class Theme -- Middle-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Conformity and the Culture of Professionalism -- Variations on the Middle-Class Theme -- A Note on Gender Differences -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Demographic Breakdown of the Sample by Social Class Respondents -- A Comparison of My Research to My Own Educational Career

This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up. Primarily, the book investigates how American children and young adults are impacted by the "hidden injuries" of class, and offers a rich description of how these injuries manifest and curdle later in life. Gorman provides sociological explanations for the phenomenon of the so-called "angry white man," and engages with this phenomenon as it relates to the rise of recent populist political figures such as Donald J. Trump. He also examines how and why white working class people tend to lash out at the wrong social forces and support political action that works against their own interests. Finally, the book demonstrates the connections between working-class attitudes toward schooling, sports, politics, and economics