Katherine Newman: 19 books
The Missing Class
Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible...
Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
Reskilling America
Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training
After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
"Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living...
After Freedom
The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election,...
The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and...
Who Cares?
Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Rampage
The Social Roots of School Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
A distinguished sociologist reveals the warning signs of a school shooter--and why we so often miss them
Parkland. Sandy Hook. Columbine. The list of school shootings gets longer by the day, and it often seems like no school is safe. Over the last decades, school shootings have decimated communities...
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2011
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies...
Downhill from Here
Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.
As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all....
by Katherine K. Newman, James B. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Biographical sketches, descent information, and references for the forebears, siblings, and cousins of Roda Selleck (1877–1970) and her husband, James Barkley Pollock (1863–1934). Includes families of Henry Selleck of Bay City, Michigan (1851–1907); Franklin Selleck of Utica, Michigan (1811–87);...
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