Jensen, Barbara.

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.


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