Social Classes

Myungji Yang’s From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half...

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from gover...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provi...

Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provi...

Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea tha...

A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher ...

A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher ...

Are social classes meaningful to Americans? The question has attracted popular and scholarly debate since the founding of the Republic. The Jackman...

An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales – for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public’s perception of justice. ...

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world? What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives o...

Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate s...

Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of ...

This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African...

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump  The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has...

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person’s place in so...

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation o...

Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Co...