Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood by Jay MacLeod

Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Jay MacLeod

344 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction education sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and "Hallway Hangers." Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged et...

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