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Published : Tuesday 5 September 2023
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This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boyâ?Ts coming of age in 1970s New Yorkâ?"now with a new epilogue. A â?oI am not your typical middle-class white male,â?? begins Dalton Conleyâ?Ts Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New Yorkâ?Ts Lower East Side. In narrating these sharply observed memories, from his little sisterâ?Ts burning desire for cornrows to the shooting of a close childhood friend, Conley shows how race and class inextricably shaped his lifeâ?"as well as the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. A In a new afterword, Conley, now a well-established senior sociologist, provides an update on what his informantsâ?T respective trajectories tell us about race and class in the city. He further reflects on how urban areas have (and havenâ?Tt) changed over the past few decades, including the stubborn resilience of poverty in New York. At once a gripping coming-of-age story and a brilliant case study illuminating broader inequalities in American society, Honky guides us to a deeper understanding of the cultural capital of whiteness, the social construction of race, and the intricacies of upward mobility.
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