The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States

by Carol J. Greenhouse

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Between 1990 and 1996, the U.S. Congress passed market-based reforms in the areas of civil rights, welfare, and immigration in a series of major legislative initiatives. These were announced as curbs on excessive rights and as correctives to a culture of dependency among the urban poor--stock images of racial and cultural minorities that circulated well beyond Congress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243129
• ISBN13: 9780812243123
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"