Reading Classes : On Culture and Classism in America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
Reading Classes -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: What Part of Fridley Are You From? -- 1. Getting Class -- 2. The Invisible Ism -- 3. Belonging versus Becoming -- 4. Behaving versus Blooming -- 5. Identity and Resistance -- 6. Across the Great Divide -- 7. Pain in the Promised Land -- 8. Gathering in Glenville -- Notes -- References -- Index.
In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying classism--or anti-working class prejudice--as a central factor in the reproduction of inequality in America.
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Classism -- United States. Working class -- United States -- Social conditions. Social classes -- United States. Social stratification -- United States.