Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas

Contemporary Ethnography

by Douglas E. Foley

Learning Capitalist Culture presents an ethnographic study of a small, economically-depressed, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town. Like many communities in the Southwest, North Town has undergone cultural and political change since the late sixties, when the Chicano civil rights movement emerged and challenged the segregated racial order. This book examines the way in which the youth of North Town learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom. Using information gathered over fourteen years of field work, Douglas E. Foley shows how the rituals involved in these activities tend to preserve or reproduce class and gender inequalities, even as Mexicanos transform the racial order.

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Education, School, Cultural

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1990

Reviews

[Crazy]

I did and didn't like this book. I had to read it for my Antrhopology class and thought that it was somewhat bias.

[Nickole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good analysis of the pervasiveness of Patrarchical order in American Culture