Reformed American Dreams : Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:- text
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- Low-income single mothers -- United States -- Social conditions
- Low-income single mothers -- Education (Higher) -- United States
- Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States
- Social movements -- United States
- United States -- Social policy -- 20th century
- Mères de famille monoparentale à faible revenu -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Mouvements sociaux -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Politique sociale -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- Social movements
- Social policy
- Welfare recipients -- Employment
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 361.6/140973 23
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- SOC050000 | EDU015000 | EDU048000 | SOC028000 | SOC031000
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; 1. Reforming the American Dream; 2. Pathways onto Welfare and into College; 3. Reformed Grassroots Activism; 4. Survival through College; 5. My Education Means Everything to Me; 6. Hope and Fear during the Great Recession; 7. Graduating into the Great Recession; 8. An American Dream for All; Afterword: Evolution of the American Dream; Appendix A: Methods Appendix; Appendix B: Profiles of Interview Participants in 2006; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author
Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy. Half of the participants in Sheila M. Katz's research were activists with the grassroots welfare rights organization, LIFETIME, trying to change welfare policy and to advocate for better access to higher education. Reformed American Dreams takes up their struggle to raise families, attend school, and become student activists, all while trying to escape poverty. Katz highlights mothers' experiences as they pursued higher education on welfare and became grassroots activists during the Great Recession.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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