A Different Shade of Gray
A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the City Katherine S. Newman,
Publisher: New Press
ISBN: 1595580816
DDC: 362.510973091732
Edition: Paperback; 2006-05-01
Summary:
An original look at urban aging by the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize
winner.In a book that Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of
Labor, called "provocative and insightful. combining revealing
details about specific people with thoughtful analysis of the trends
that have shaped their lives," Katherine S. Newman, former dean of
social sciences at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
and award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, exposes a growing
but largely invisible group of Americans: the aging urban
underclass.While an increasing portion of the U.S. population is
about to retirethe number of Americans over age sixty-five is
expected to double to seventy million in the next thirty yearsthe
experience of middle and old age, as Newman shows, differs
dramatically for whites and minorities, for the middle class and the
poor, and for those living in the suburbs versus the city. Focusing
on the lives of elderly African Americans and Latinos in pockets of
New York City where wages are low, crime is often high, and the
elderly have few support systems they can rely on, A Different Shade
of Gray provides "a well-documented portrait of a little-examined
group" (Kirkus Reviews).
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