Coming Apart : : the State of White America, 1960-2010
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A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Forum, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: viii, 407 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307453426
0307453421
SUBJECTS
White people -- Social conditions.
White people -- Economic conditions.
Social classes.
Social mobility.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-