Katherine S. Newman

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born

in Palo Alto, CA, The United States

February 21, 1953

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female

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences

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Katherine Newman is Professor of Sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Author of several books on middle class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, she previously taught at the University of California (Berkeley), Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.

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Katherine S. Newman's Books

Average rating: 3.60 · 462 ratings · 86 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors

	No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America 3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence 3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition 3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife And Beyond in the Inner City 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged by Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth Jacobs 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars