Potter Addition: Poverty, Family and Kinship in a Heartland Community Book

	Acknowledgments
1	First Impressions and Second Thoughts	1
2	The Social Reproduction of Poverty	11
	Conventional and Critical Problematics	13
	Variable Environments	20
	The Culture of Poverty and Variable Environments	25
3	Potter Addition	33
	Grand Prairie	33
	The Ecological Setting of Community	34
	Surplus Populations	36
	The Material Infrastructure of Community	41
	The Material Culture of Potter Addition	45
	The Junkyards	51
	Betty's Market	52
	The Question of Class	55
4	The World of Work	59
	Disorderly Careers in Potter Addition	60
	The Jack-of-All-Trades	66
	Lower-Class Work Values	68
5	Labor, Leisure, and Ideology	73
	Leisure Time Farming	75
	The Car Cult	81
	The Subjective Reproduction of Male Morale	89
6	Saving and Spending	93
	Variable Environments and the Economic Conservatism of the Poor	93
	Variable Environments and "Nigger-Rich" Life-Styles	99
	Mining the Interstices	100
	Alternative Economies	106
7	The Uxoricentric Family	119
	The Parsonsian Model	120
	The Jural Default of the Husband	124
	The Husband as Affine	130
	Protracted Intimacies: Mothers and Daughters	135
8	The Antinomies of Family Life	147
	Generational Compression	147
	The Dialectics of Uxoricentric Family Life	156
9	The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship	165
	The Structure of the Personal Kindred	166
	Kinship as Ideology	170
	Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship Systems	173
	Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship in Clay County	175
	Open and Closed Households in Potter Addition	178
	The Merging of Households	182
	The Iron Cage of Reciprocity	185
10	The Moral Foundation of Lower-Class Kinship	193
	The Axiom of Kinship Amity	193
	Merged and Amalgamated Identities	196
	Affinal Struggles	201
11	The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups	209
	Potter Addition's Descent Groups	209
	The Birth of the Sibling-Based Kindred: The Story of Mary Graham	210
	The Brother as Ex-Officio Family Member	218
	Minimalist Kinship	219
12	Uxoricentric Descent Groups	225
	The Synthetic Nature of Uxoricentric Kinship	225
	Lower-Class Kinship as a Whole	233
13	Potter Addition Today	237
	The Corporate University	238
	Grand Prairie	242
	Clay County and Its Small Towns	245
	Clay County's Farmers	247
	Persistent Poverty	249
	The Changing Face of Poverty	251
	Continuities in the Culture of Poverty	255
	The Evolution of Potter Addition's Culture of Poverty	259
14	Potter Addition and Its Poverty	265
	Poverty, System, and Social Reproduction	265
	Necessary and Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths to Poverty	268
	The Denial of Class	271
	The Question of Pathology	277
	Notes	283
	References	307
	Author Index	317
	Subject Index	321