DOUGLAS E. FOLEY 

Douglas Foley finished his B.A. in history at Northern Iowa University and his M.A. in anthropology and Ph.D. in educational anthropology at Stanford University. After doing fieldwork in the Philippines and Mexico, he became a specialist in U.S. culture and schools. He has taught courses on popular culture, social movements, race relations, and inequality in the U.S. public schools. He served as co-editor of the Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education for five years. During his thirty year career, he has written and edited six books and over 60 articles and chapters. His most recent ethnographies are Learning Capitalist Culture Deep in the Heart of Tejas and the Heartland Chronicles.

SOME OF HIS BOOKS 

2002 (Ed.) Writing Ethnographies: Some Queries and Reflections. A special issue of the International Journal of QualitativeStudies in Education. Vol. 15, No. 4: 383-495.

1996 with Bradley Levinson and Dorothy Holland (Eds.)The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling Practices. Buffalo: State University ofNew York Press.

1995 The Heartland ChroniclesPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.(nominated for the American Anthropological Association’s Prize in Ethnographic Writing)

"A fascinating study of the clash between Anglo and Hispanic cultures in South Texas as seen through the eyes of its youth."—Choice

Learning Capitalist Culture poses excellent questions and offers provocative theoretical possibilities."—American Journal of Sociology

LEARNING CAPITALIST CULTURE DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEJAS

 

Like many communities in the Southwest, North Town has undergone significant cultural and political change since the late 19760s, when the Chicano civil rights movement emerged and challenged the segregated racial order. The resulting racial confrontation between Mexicanos and Anglos created new tensions and problems learning capitalist is an ethnographic study of popular cultural practices that reproduce social inequality. The way in which these youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom. Douglas E.Foley shows how the rituals involved in these activities tend to preserve or reproduce class and gender inequalities, even as Mexicanos transform the racial order

CHAPTER 2 -THE GREAT AMERICAN FOOTBALL RITUAL

 WINNERS NEVER QUIT AND QUITTERS NEVER WIN

    This is my favorite line in this chapter because  it is so true. In real life whether it is a game ,play anything where there are many players few or two individuals only, there is a winer and a loser It applies in any filed, where  there is fair play one has to leave the field with a smile and trophy  and the other person has to shed a few tears and leave with the hope of winning the next time .I find it very motivating and inspiring. This  teaches us a lot of things in life . It is a good example that says only the ones who win are not the winners but also the ones who have accepted their defeat and still haven't given up and  try their best . The most important part is our participation and dedication .Even if someone wins and is too proud and makes others feel bad that makes him not the winer but the biggest loser .While as quitters will  never win as they don't believe in themselves they know that they won't win so they just quit. They don't accept defeat. But if they have the will and try their best they too can surely be winners.

DID I LIKE OR   DISLIKE  THE BOOK 

I liked the book because of the contents in it.The students of north town were so interested in sports especially football.The football players were so focused and were so dedicated.The town was typically a sports town .The marching band and the cheerleaders were also so supporting to their teams. But what i din't like about the book is the racial discrimination among the anglos and mexicans .The captains lead the teams but only the anglo's entered first then followed by the mexicans players .While going for out of town trips the anglo's seated them selfs in the front of the bus.