Reading Classes : On Culture and Classism in America /

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Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experience...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jensen, Barbara, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class > Social conditions.
Social stratification.
Social classes.
Classism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Stratification sociale > États-Unis.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Classisme > États-Unis.
Social stratification > United States.
Social classes > United States.
Working class > United States > Social conditions.
Classism > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : what part of Fridley are you from?
  • Getting class
  • The invisible ism
  • Belonging versus becoming
  • Behaving versus blooming
  • Identity and resistance
  • Across the great divide
  • Pain in the promised land
  • Gathering in Glenville.

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