Katherine S. Newman, Author New Press $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-56584-615-9
In this intelligent study, Newman, a Harvard urban studies professor and the author of No Shame in My Game, contends that aging, for a large population of minorities and working poor in inner city neighborhoods, is an experience fraught with...
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Katherine S. Newman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-40254-8
After writing two books on the American middle class (Falling from Grace and Declining Fortunes), Newman delivers an eye-opening look at the urban working poor. First of all, she makes clear that the vast majority want to work--even when their lives
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Katherine S. Newman, Author Basic Books $23 (257p) ISBN 978-0-465-01593-1
To find out how economic decline and downward mobility have shaped the personal problems, marital conflicts and expectations of postwar baby-boomers, Columbia University anthropologist Newman interviewed some 150 residents of a typical New Jersey...
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Katherine Newman. Beacon, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0743-3
Newman (The Missing Class) examines the proliferation of “accordion families,” in which children continue to live with their parents late into their 20s and 30s. It’s a phenomenon that spans cultures and continents, and Newman’s inquiry takes her...
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Katherine S. Newman, Author, Cybelle Fox, With, Wendy Roth, With et al. Basic $27.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-05103-8
Despite the rarity of school shootings, a point carefully reiterated by the authors—anthropologist Newman (No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
) and four students in a doctoral program she directs at Harvard University
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Katherine S. Newman, Author, Victor Tan Chen, Author . Beacon $26.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4139-0
In this compassionate and clear-eyed analysis, sociologist Newman and journalist Chen posit that the middle class gains of the 1990s have been imperiled by the recent rollback of New Deal–style government aid. Millions of Americans climbed...
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