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Learning Capitalist Culture
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Building on the author's thirty-six years of experience with North Town, Texas, this second edition presents an ethnographic study of the ways the town's youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom.

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Douglas E. Foley is 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, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"A fascinating study of the clash between Anglo and Hispanic cultures in South Texas as seen through the eyes of its youth."
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"Learning Capitalist Culture poses excellent questions and offers provocative theoretical possibilities."
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