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How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives
and well-being of middle-class families The struggle to pay for
college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in
America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents
agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to
sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second
mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes
readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the
nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the
ways that financing college has transformed family life. Caitlin
Zaloom gained the confidence of numerous parents and their
college-age children, who talked candidly with her about stressful
and intensely personal financial matters that are usually kept
private. In this remarkable book, Zaloom describes the profound
moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as
their highest parental duty-providing their children with
opportunity-and shows how parents and students alike are forced to
take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not
pay off. What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle
class fettered by the "student finance complex"-the bewildering
labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking
firms, and university offices that collect information on household
earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is
eligible for aid and who is not. Superbly written and unflinchingly
honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding
the student debt crisis, revealing the unspoken costs of sending
our kids to college.
Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. In The Long Year, some of
the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises,
revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more
equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
In" Out of the Pits," Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers,
and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age.
Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as
well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finance, she
explains how changes at the world's leading financial exchanges
have transformed economic cultures and the craft of speculation;
how people and places are responding to the digital transition; how
traders are remaking themselves to compete in the contemporary
marketplace; and how brokers, business managers, and software
designers are collaborating to build new markets. A penetrating and
richly detailed account of how cities, culture, and technology
shape everyday life in the global economy, "Out of the Pits" will
be required reading for anyone who has ever wondered how financial
markets work."Zaloom's superb book is a double-site ethnography
[that shows how] the appearance of chaos hid a complex social
order, which Zaloom delineates beautifully."--"The London Review of
Books"
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for
intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine
that unites the best of the university with the openness of the
internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts
revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars
present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy,
accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of
readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what
they mean for the world at large. Think in Public: A Public Books
Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the
magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered
here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers,
including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah
Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, N. D. B. Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and
Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting
contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history,
race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers
and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new
directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation
of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans
that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But
the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental
problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history.
The election's consequences drastically changed how Americans
experience their country, especially for those threatened by the
public outburst of bigotry and repression. Amid the deluge of
tweets and breaking news stories that turn each day into a
political soap opera, it can be difficult to take a step back and
see the big picture. To confront the threats we face, we must
recognize that the Trump presidency is a symptom, not the malady.
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand how
we got to this point and what can be done about it. Assembled by
the sociologist Eric Klinenberg as well as the editors of the
online magazine Public Books, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus, it
offers essays from many of the nation's leading scholars, experts
on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties,
protest, inequality, immigration, climate change, national
security, and the role of the media. Antidemocracy in America
places our present in international and historical context,
considering the worldwide turn toward authoritarianism and its
varied precursors. Each essay seeks to inform our understanding of
the fragility of American democracy and suggests how to protect it
from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into
public view.
Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. In The Long Year, some of
the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises,
revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more
equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans
that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But
the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental
problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history.
The election's consequences drastically changed how Americans
experience their country, especially for those threatened by the
public outburst of bigotry and repression. Amid the deluge of
tweets and breaking news stories that turn each day into a
political soap opera, it can be difficult to take a step back and
see the big picture. To confront the threats we face, we must
recognize that the Trump presidency is a symptom, not the malady.
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand how
we got to this point and what can be done about it. Assembled by
the sociologist Eric Klinenberg as well as the editors of the
online magazine Public Books, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus, it
offers essays from many of the nation's leading scholars, experts
on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties,
protest, inequality, immigration, climate change, national
security, and the role of the media. Antidemocracy in America
places our present in international and historical context,
considering the worldwide turn toward authoritarianism and its
varied precursors. Each essay seeks to inform our understanding of
the fragility of American democracy and suggests how to protect it
from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into
public view.
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives
and well-being of middle-class families The struggle to pay for
college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America.
Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the
nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the
ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred
relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for
parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest
parental duty-providing their children with opportunity-and shows
how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an
investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and
unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of
silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken
costs of sending our kids to college.
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for
intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine
that unites the best of the university with the openness of the
internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts
revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars
present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy,
accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of
readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what
they mean for the world at large. Think in Public: A Public Books
Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the
magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered
here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers,
including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah
Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, N. D. B. Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and
Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting
contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history,
race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers
and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new
directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation
of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
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