Spotlight Webcast: Interview with Stefanie DeLuca
The recently released book Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility.
Co-author Stefanie DeLuca, associate professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, discusses the book with Spotlight’s Jodie Levin-Epstein. They explore the purpose of the project, the findings’ highlights, and how to take action.
Project purpose
Highlights of DeLuca’s findings
Taking action
Further Reading: Read DeLuca’s report with co-author Susan Clampet-Lundquist for The Century Foundation: The Cycle of Poverty is Not Inevitable
“Their stories show us how social reproduction — in which children are ‘stuck’ in the same social class as their parents — happens. … Yet perhaps just as importantly, their stories point out how we can interrupt the intergenerational disadvantage that runs counter to the American myth of upward mobility.”