Sheila M Katz

Reformed American Dreams

Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594347
• ISBN-10: 0813594340
• Artikelnr.: 56788316

Autorenporträt

SHEILA M. KATZ is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Houston in Texas. She is a founding board member of the National Center for Student Parent Programs and previously taught at Sonoma State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
1          Reforming the American Dream        
2          Pathways onto Welfare and into College
3          Reformed Grassroots Activism
4          Survival through College
5          My Education Means Everything to Me
6          Hope and Fear during the Great Recession
7          Graduating into the Great Recession
8          An American Dream for All  
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography  
Index