class

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• SOURCE: Jewish Currents
  1/3/2022
  

  Edifice Complex: "Burnout" Used to Refer to the Problems of the Urban Poor

  by Bench Ansfield

  The psychologization of stress and fatigue under the term "burnout" has blunted consideration of how and why modern society makes people stressed and fatigued. The term's history shows the critical turns not taken. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/2/2022
  

  The Biggest Threat to America's Stability is the Class Divide

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  We mistakenly bemoan "polarization" instead of reckoning with the economic power of radical right-wing elites, who have the resources to fund growing organizations, and the growing number of people disaffected from the social order who are susceptible to their messages. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  10/27/2022
  

  Can Americans Understand the Divisions in Latino Politics?

  by Geraldo Cadava

  Despite the lip service both parties pay to welcoming (and deserving) the growing Latino vote, do their non-Latino leaders actually understand the complexities of this large demographic category? Do they want to? 

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• SOURCE: N+1
  9/9/2022
  

  Barbara Ehrenreich Challenged Readers to Examine Themselves

  by Gabriel Winant

  The journalist and social theorist wrote to force her readers to examine their own positions in society's hierarchies, not to encourage cynicism of futility, but to encourage them to see change as a long haul. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  Nepotistic Legacy Admissions are the Gaping Loophole of American Meritocracy

  by Richard Reeves

  Is a campaign of shaming over legacy admissions necessary to shift American norms away from tolerating these policies that reproduce generational privilege? 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  2/14/2021
  

  Backlash Forever (Review Essay)

  by Gabriel Winant

  Historian Gabriel Winant reviews two recent books about the past and present of reactionary white working class politics and considers whether this tendency can be overcome. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  1/26/2021
  

  ‘Despised’ Review: The Left and the Working Class

  by Jonathan Rose

  Historian Jonathan Rose reviews a book by British firefighter and "left conservative" Paul Embery which identifies the collapse of both working class communities and open debate in Britain as factors in the demise of Labour as a political force. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/21/2020
  

  A More Perfect Meritocracy

  by Agnes Callard

  Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/2/2020
  

  Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice

  by Michael J. Sandel

  Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university. His campaign may test the pervasive belief that elite academic credentials are a necessity to govern.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  The Undemocratic History of School ‘Pandemic Pods’

  by Mark Boonshoft

  The Coronavirus pandemic threatens to entrench the undemocratic practice of exclusive education for children of the rich. 

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• SOURCE: OAH Process blog
  4-5-18
  

  Steve Fraser: On writing personally about class in America

  by Steve Fraser

  "If class is embedded, often undetected, in the marrow of the national experience, then it should show up in the everyday lives of ordinary people as well. I am an ordinary person and I show up in my own book, in every chapter."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-26-13
  

  Stephanie Coontz: Marriages divided by class

  Marriage increasingly seen out of reach to all but educated elite.