| A Different Shade of Gray: Mid-Life and Beyond in the Inner City Contributor(s): Newman, Katherine S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 156584615X ISBN-13: 9781565846159 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: Classic works by William Julius Wilson and Alex Kotlowitz have given Americans searing accounts of coming of age amid urban poverty. Now Katherine Newman, Kennedy School professor and author of No Shame in My Game, a book about the working poor that Publishers Weekly called "eye-opening" and "bracingly refreshing, " shifts our attention to the other end of the human life span, offering the first comprehensive look at aging in the inner city. While recent prosperity has allowed many to enjoy their old age in the comfort of retirement communities, a combination of historical circumstances, personal decisions, and changing public policy have conspired to keep another set of Americans locked in crumbling urban settings to "age in place." How this happened and what it means are the questions at the center of this original and illuminating study. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
| Dewey: 362.510 |
| LCCN: 2002024426 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.46" W x 9.44" (1.42 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a book that Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, called provocative and insightful . . . combining revealing details about specific people with thoughtful analysis of the trends that have shaped their lives, Katherine S. Newman, former dean of social sciences at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, exposes a growing but largely invisible group of Americans: the aging urban underclass. While an increasing portion of the U.S. population is about to retire--the number of Americans over age sixty-five is expected to double to seventy million in the next thirty years--the experience of middle and old age, as Newman shows, differs dramatically for whites and minorities, for the middle class and the poor, and for those living in the suburbs versus the city. Focusing on the lives of elderly African Americans and Latinos in pockets of New York City where wages are low, crime is often high, and the elderly have few support systems they can rely on, A Different Shade of Gray provides a well-documented portrait of a little-examined group (Kirkus Reviews). |