social stratification

"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class-descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China-find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind"--.

Akita struggles to save Lou's brain on the space station Ketheres, where it is being used to power an A.I., and finds herself in the midst of a power struggle between planets that have discovered the secret of immortality.

Alita entered the Zenith of Things tournament to save her friend Lou's brain from being used as a computer component, but she questions her goal when learns that her opponent has a worthier cause.

Alita wakes to find that she has been moved into a different cyborg body, as beautiful as ever, but more powerful. She also finds that while she was "gone, " Nova revealed the terrible secret of Tiphares. Now, those that know the truth are being hunted down by killer robots, and a group of children needs Alita's help. But who can she trust?.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the role that class distinctions plays in the United States despite the concept of the American dream.

Misfit hero and inventor Edgar Jones, who longs to fly, gets in trouble with his professor, an inventor, his father, and other people due to his inquisitiveness during the changes of the early nineteenth century, and when he builds something surprising, he puts himself and his family in danger.

Presents firsthand accounts of global poverty, arguing that promoting the social and economic rights of the poor is the most important struggle of modern times, and challenging conventional thinking on human rights by comparing the relationship between political injustices and the suffering of the powerless.

Collection of twenty-four essays that considers social classes in schooling, family life, and social structure.