Ranita Ray: 2 books
The Making of a Teenage Service Class
Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting...
As the Leaves Turn Gold
Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated...