This year's ClassCrits meeting will be at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, November 15-16. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is fast approaching: March 20, 2013.
The call...
The Devastating Disconnect Between Rich and Poor
Posted by Lisa R. Pruitt
The Occupy Wall Street movement has recently drawn national attention to economic inequality, and several new studies and a book just published also invite us to...
Remembering Joe Bageant: Class Migrant, Class Warrior
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Americans like to think they live in a society unstratified by class, a society of equal opportunity, where the American dream survives. Joe Bageant, a journalist turned...
Under-educated State Legislatures? (Part I): Do They Explain Funding Cuts to Higher Education?
By Lisa R. Pruitt
The Chronicle of Higher Education this week released data summarizing the tertiary education (or lack thereof) of state legislators across the...
Downsides to Class Privilege? Hardly a Trend
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Two recent news reports from very different parts of the world shared this theme: Affluence can have its drawbacks.
The first story was Michael Wines, “Execution in a...
False Dichotomies of Class (Part II): Material versus Cultural
By Lisa R. Pruitt
I responded last month to Martha McCluskey’s ClassCrits post, “Class as a Category of Vulnerability and Inequality.” In that initial response, I asserted that...
Elitism and Education (Part IV): Admission Office Bias Against Rural Students?
By Lisa R. Pruitt
In a prior post about Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford’s book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in...
Elitism and Education (Part III): Working Class Whites and Elite College Admissions
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Parts I and II of this series appeared in August, 2010 here and here.
Ever since Ross Douthat discussed No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College...
False Dichotomies of Class (Part I): Mobility versus Mobilization
By Lisa R. Pruitt
Martha McCluskey wrote a couple of weeks ago on the ClassCrits Blog about some questions regarding class that arose at Martha Fineman’s recent workshop, Masking and...
Widening Spatial Inequality and What to Do About It
by Lisa R. Pruitt
Wealth and income inequality have been getting a lot of attention in recent months--at least in the New York Times. Op-Ed columnist Bob Herbert has been especially...