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"Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention home-ward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates' recollected experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, also written about in the novels of Philip Roth, Weequahic High School's most famous alum. Ortner provides a chronicle of the journey of her classmates from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the wealthy upper-middle or professional/managerial class."--Jacket.

High school graduates --- Social mobility --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Weequahic High School (Newark, N.J.). --- Graduates, High school --- High schools --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Alumni and alumnae --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- 316.342.2 --- 316.342.2 Sociale klassen --- Sociale klassen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions