This year's ClassCrits meeting will be at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, November 15-16. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is fast approaching: March 20, 2013.
The call...
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This year's ClassCrits meeting will be at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, November 15-16. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is fast approaching: March 20, 2013.
The call...
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
Two recent news reports from very different parts of the world shared this theme: Affluence can have its drawbacks.
The first story was Michael Wines, “Execution in a...
By Lisa R. Pruitt
I responded last month to Martha McCluskey’s ClassCrits post, “Class as a Category of Vulnerability and Inequality.” In that initial response, I asserted that...
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...