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Tables and FigurePreface to the Paperback EditionPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1What Is the American Dream?15Ch. 2Rich and Poor African Americans39Ch. 3What's All the Fuss About?: Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs about the American Dream55Ch. 4Succeeding More and Under the Spell: Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream72Ch. 5Beliefs about One's Own Life91Ch. 6Beliefs about Others122Ch. 7Competitive Success and Collective Well being141Ch. 8Remaining under the Spell157Ch. 9With One Part of Themselves They Actually Believe174Ch. 10Distorting the Dream184Ch. 11Breaking the Spell200Ch. 12The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values214Ch. 13Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants225Ch. 14The Future of the American Dream250Appendix ASurveys Used for Unpublished Tabulations261Appendix BSupplemental Tables267Notes271Works Cited341Index399
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