Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas (Contemporary Ethnography Series) - Hardcover

Foley, Douglas E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812282469 ISBN 13: 9780812282467

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990

Synopsis

Learning Capitalist Culture presents an ethnographic study of a small, economically-depressed, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town. Like many communities in the Southwest, North Town has undergone cultural and political change since the late sixties, when the Chicano civil rights movement emerged and challenged the segregated racial order. This book examines the way in which the youth of North Town learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom. Using information gathered over fourteen years of field work, Douglas E. Foley shows how the rituals involved in these activities tend to preserve or reproduce class and gender inequalities, even as Mexicanos transform the racial order.

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Review:

"A fascinating study of the clash between Anglo and Hispanic cultures in South Texas as seen through the eyes of its youth."—Choice

"Learning Capitalist Culture poses excellent questions and offers provocative theoretical possibilities."—American Journal of Sociology

About the Author:

Douglas E. Foley is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of From Peones to Politicos: Class and Ethnicity in a South Texas Town, 1900-1987, and The Heartland Chronicles, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0812282469
• ISBN 13: 9780812282467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268