Conversation #11: White Working Class (August 6, 2017)

In this episode we discuss the book White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams. Along the way we talk about the persistence of class, class signifiers, economic class as a proxy for race, personal bigotry versus structural racism, work as identity, and how to (and whether to) try having conversations across class barriers.

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More Information

Here is the Cracker Barrel post Grace mentions, by Ijeoma Oluo:

https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/facebooks-complicity-in-the-silencing-of-black-women-e60c34434181

A few weeks ago, I (Paul) wrote up my thoughts on White Working Class. You can find those thoughts in my blog post here (scroll down a bit to find the review):

https://thebooksthatwroteme.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-cooling-off-period.html