Social Classes

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable ...

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Cl...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

In this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contempora...

Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which e...

The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flo...

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enha...

The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-in...

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges a...

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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, w...

Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with,...

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these pe...

Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers t...