Voices of hope and despair --

Narrating the 1980s and 1990s : voices of white and African American men --

Loss of privilege inside white, working-class masculinity / with Amira Proweller and Craig Centrie --

"To stand up and be men" : black males rewriting social representations / with Tracey Shepherd and Kenny Foster --

"It's a small frog that will never leave Puerto Rico" : Puerto Rican men and the struggle for place in the United States / with Craig Centrie and Juan Valentin-Juarbe --

Cops, crime, and violence --

"I've slept in clothes long enough" : domestic violence among women in the white working class / with Amira Proweller, Corrine Bertram, and Julia Maruza --

"Food in our stomachs and a roof overhead" : African American women crossing borders / with Rukiyaa Morton --

Working without a net : poor mothers raising their families --

Refusing the betrayal : Latinas redefining gender, sexuality, family, and home / with Rosemarie Roberts --

"You can never get too much" : reflections on urban schooling : for grown-ups and kids --

Work, the state, and the body : re-viewing the loss and re-imagining the future.