Katherine S. Newman

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born

February 21, 1953 in Palo Alto, CA, The United States

gender

female

website

http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_a...

genre

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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Books by Katherine S. Newman

Average rating: 3.62 · 340 ratings · 71 reviews · 15 distinct works

	No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City 3.67 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America 3.64 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding 3.60 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market 3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in Age of Affluence 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife And Beyond in the Inner City 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged by Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth Jacobs 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating: