Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
- 4h 57m
- Caitlin Zaloom
- Princeton University Press
- 2021
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
About the Authors
Caitlin Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. She lives in New York City. Twitter @caitlinzaloom
In this Book
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Introduction
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Best-Laid Plans
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The Model Family
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Enmeshed Autonomy
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Race and Upward Mobility
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Cultivating Potential
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Conclusion: A Right to the Future
