It's a book by an NYU sociology professor, who grew up white in a low income project south of the lower east side, where everyone else was black or Hispanic. I picked it up yesterday, and it looked like an easy read (it is under 200 pages) on a short night.
It's not a bad book, but don't bother looking for it (as if you would). In case you couldn't figure it out for yourself, if you are white and poor, you have many more chances to break from that economic situation than if you are black and poor, or Hispanic and poor. Particularly, if your grandparents are not so poor, and don't live in "the projects", and if your intellectual/artist parents know how to wangle you into Stuyvesant High School.
Enough said.
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