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The Cultural Matrix
Understanding Black Youth
- by
- Andrew ClarkwestRajeev DehejiaThomas DeLeireKathryn EdinAmy E. ForanSimone Ispa-LandaAlexandra A. KillewaldJoseph C. KrupnickErzo F.P. LuttmerWayne MarshallJody MillerJosh MitchellJackie RiversJames E. RosenbaumJanet RosenbaumPeter RosenblattRobert J. SampsonPam SchuetzTommie ShelbyJennifer StephanVan C. TranSudhir Alladi VenkateshChristopher WinshipRobert G. WoodQueenie Zhu
2015
EN
The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are among the most vibrant creators of popular culture in the world. They also espouse severa...
The Debt Trap
How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Todd Ross
- Series -
- A Study of Education and Economics
Unabridged
8 hours 5 min
2021
EN
AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades, the studen...