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New Jersey Dreaming : Capital, Culture, and the Class of 58
New Jersey Dreaming Capital Culture and the Class of 58 Author:Sherry B. Ortner In New Jersey Dreaming the renowned anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner turns her attention to how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School’s Class of 1958, of which she was a member. Exploring her clas... more »smates’ recollected experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, she provides an ethnographic chronicle of their journeys from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the affluent upper middle and professional/managerial classes.« less