Urban Readers Series: Michaela Soyer - "A Dream Denied"
The Urban Readers Series presents Michaela Soyer in A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America.
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About the book: Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the “American dream” narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago. This book connects young male offenders’ cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing a tragic disconnect between structural reality and juvenile justice policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their personal failures, and how it promises them a better future.
About the author: Michaela Soyer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hunter College.
About the series: In collaboration with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, UChicago Urban has launched the Urban Readers Series, an author-centered series of readings and conversations at the Seminary Co-op. At Urban Readers, people from all over Chicago can hear from the university’s scholars and connect with one another over urban issues, histories and futures. All books in the series are written by UChicago’s faculty, alumni, and affiliates.
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