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White trash etiquette : the definitive guide to upscale trailer park manners / by Edstrom, Verne.(CARDINAL)432177;
Subjects: Humor.; Rednecks; Working class white people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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White working class : overcoming class cluelessness in America / by Williams, Joan,1952-author.(CARDINAL)420749;
Why talk about class? -- Who is the working class? -- Why does the working class resent the poor? -- Why does the working class resent professionals but admire the rich? -- Why doesn't the working class just move to where the jobs are? -- Why doesn't the working class get with it and go to college? -- Why don't they push their kids harder to succeed? -- How racist is the working class? -- How sexist is the working class? -- Don't they understand that manufacturing jobs aren't coming back? -- Why don't working-class men just take "pink-collar" jobs? -- Why don't the people who benefit most from government help seem to appreciate it? -- Can we embrace the white working class without abandoning our values and our allies? -- How the class culture gap drives politics.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Working class white people; Populism; Middle class; Nationalism;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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White working class : overcoming class cluelessness in America / by Williams, Joan,1952-author.(CARDINAL)420749;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Why talk about class? -- Who is the working class? -- Why does the working class resent the poor? -- Why does the working class resent professionals but admire the rich? -- Why doesn't the working class just move to where the jobs are? -- Why doesn't the working class get with it and go to college? -- Why don't they push their kids harder to succeed? -- Is the working class just racist? -- Is the working class just sexist? -- Don't they understand that manufacturing jobs aren't coming back? -- Why don't working-class men just take "pink-collar" jobs? -- Why don't the people who benefit most from government help seem to appreciate it? -- Can liberals embrace the white working class without abandoning important values and allies? -- Why are Democrats worse at connecting with the white working class than Republicans?"Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite, journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having "something approaching rock star status" by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in class cluelessness. Williams explains that many people have conflated "working class" with "poor"--but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich, nor are they particularly bothered by income inequality. Their dream is not to join the upper middle class, with its different culture, but to stay true to their own values in their own communities--just with more money. While white working-class motivations are often dismissed as racist or xenophobic, Williams shows that they have their own class consciousness. White Working Class is a blunt, bracing narrative that sketches a nuanced portrait of millions of people who have proven to be a potent political force. For anyone stunned by the rise of populist, nationalist movements, wondering why so many would seemingly vote against their own economic interests, or simply feeling like a stranger in their own country, White Working Class will be a convincing primer on how to connect with a crucial set of workers--and voters"--
Subjects: Working class white people; Populism; Middle class; Nationalism; Middle class white people; Class consciousness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hillbilly highway : the transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class / by Fraser, Max(Professor),author.(CARDINAL)880470;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillibilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture--from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives. The book draws on a diverse range of sources--from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music--to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transppalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest--bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present" --
Subjects: Labor mobility; Rural-urban migration; Migration, Internal; Appalachians (People); Appalachians (People); Working class white people;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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When we liked Ike : looking for postwar America / by Norfleet, Barbara P.(CARDINAL)334045;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Mass media and culture; Mass media and families; Middle class; Middle class; National characteristics, American.; White people; White people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The hidden cost of being African American : how wealth perpetuates inequality / by Shapiro, Thomas M.,author.(CARDINAL)733284;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.The color of the safety net -- The cost of being Black and the advantage of being white -- Inheritance : "that parent thing" -- Middle class in black and white : how level is the playing field? -- The homeownership crossroad -- Where people "choose" to live -- "Getting a decent middle-class American education" : pursuing advantage in schoolsThomas Shapiro blends personal stories, interviews, empirical data, and analysis to illuminate how family assets produce dramatic consequences in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. This book will re-shape public understanding of racial inequality and will help us understand why new policies are necessary. Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African-American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. Alongside these encouraging signs, Shapiro argues that fundamental levels of racial inequality persist, particularly in the area of asset accumulation. This book demonstrates how families use private wealth to leverage advantages in communities and schooling for themselves and their children. In this eye-opening volume, Shapiro uses a combination of in-depth interviews with almost 200 families from Los Angeles, Boston, and St. Louis, and national survey data with 10,000 families to show how racial inequality is passed down from generation to generation through the use of private family wealth. Shapiro adroitly illustrates the profound importance of assets--savings accounts, stocks, bonds, home equity, and other investments--to the past, present, and future lives of American families. For instance, young, white middle class-families typically purchase their first homes with substantial financial assistance from their extended family, and thus wealth accumulated from the past transforms opportunities into a substantial head start in life. This "wealthfare" is a legacy of past inequality visiting the present and may well project social injustice for generations into the future. An asset perspective, Shapiro shows, is a truer measure of the economic health of the black community--over half the black families fell below an asset poverty line in 1999. Moreover, an asset-based perspective, unlike currently used income-based approaches, gives insight into issues underlying debates ranging from school choice, welfare reform, and economic inequality
Subjects: Electronic books.; African Americans; African Americans; Wealth; Equality; Racism; Interviews; Racism.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The new minority : white working class politics in an age of immigration and inequality / by Gest, Justin,author.(CARDINAL)501050;
Includes bibliographical references and index.It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump.
Subjects: Working class; Working class; White people; White people; White people; White people; Right-wing extremists; Right-wing extremists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Is Bill Cosby right? : or has the Black middle class lost its mind? / by Dyson, Michael Eric.(CARDINAL)225448;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272) and index.An Afristocrat in winter -- Speaking of race--or not -- Classrooms and cell blocks -- What's in a name (brand)? -- Family values -- Shadow boxing with a scapegoat? (or, do white people matter?) -- Afterword : "Niggas come in all colors".Counters Bill Cosby's view on the black poor, and discusses the growing gap between the upper-class black poulation and the poor black population.
Subjects: African American families.; African Americans; Conflict of generations; Intergenerational relations; Middle class; Social values; Intergenerational relationships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Life in the South during the Civil War / by Reger, James P.(CARDINAL)635430;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106) and index.Describes the daily life, in the Confederacy, of ladies and gentlemen, slaves, middle class whites, and marginal characters.
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Is marriage for white people? : how the African American marriage decline affects everyone / by Banks, Ralph Richard.(CARDINAL)690036;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-277) and index.The African american marriage decline -- Why don't black people marry? -- The gender gap -- The market for relationships -- Child bearing & rearing -- The relationship consequences of the marriage decline -- Marrying down -- The down vs. out choice -- The impediments to interracial relationships -- Why black women want black men -- Tired of marrying again -- The market for black women -- Why black women should cross the color line.Examines a sharp decline in marriage rates among the African-American middle class while analyzing probable causes, tracing the rise of educated and independent black women and evaluating the potential of interracial marriages.
Subjects: African American families.; African Americans; Interracial marriage; Marriage; Marriage.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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