Written by Hazel Weiser
Here’s where I disagree with Professor Tamanaha. It’s not that SALT has been silent or callous about the rise of student debt. As Dean Van Cleave so passionately...
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Written by Hazel Weiser
Here’s where I disagree with Professor Tamanaha. It’s not that SALT has been silent or callous about the rise of student debt. As Dean Van Cleave so passionately...
Posted by Lisa R. Pruitt
The Occupy Wall Street movement has recently drawn national attention to economic inequality, and several new studies and a book just published also invite us to...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Americans like to think they live in a society unstratified by class, a society of equal opportunity, where the American dream survives. Joe Bageant, a journalist turned...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
The Chronicle of Higher Education this week released data summarizing the tertiary education (or lack thereof) of state legislators across the...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
In a prior post about Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford’s book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Parts I and II of this series appeared in August, 2010 here and here.
Ever since Ross Douthat discussed No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Martha McCluskey wrote a couple of weeks ago on the ClassCrits Blog about some questions regarding class that arose at Martha Fineman’s recent workshop, Masking and...
by Lisa R. Pruitt
Wealth and income inequality have been getting a lot of attention in recent months--at least in the New York Times. Op-Ed columnist Bob Herbert has been especially...
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt
In a recent post, I commented on what the film “Winter’s Bone” might reveal about white privilege. There I discussed Ree Dolly, the film’s heroine, in the...
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt
This story, "Placing the Blame as Students are Buried in Debt," caught my attention when it appeared in the New York Times in May. The report features...