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Call for Papers: ClassCrits VI

March 8, 2013

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...

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The Devastating Disconnect Between Rich and Poor

February 12, 2012

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...

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Remembering Joe Bageant: Class Migrant, Class Warrior

October 14, 2011

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...

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Under-educated State Legislatures? (Part I): Do They Explain Funding Cuts to Higher Education?

June 17, 2011

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...

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Downsides to Class Privilege? Hardly a Trend

June 12, 2011

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...

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False Dichotomies of Class (Part II): Material versus Cultural

May 23, 2011

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...

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Elitism and Education (Part IV): Admission Office Bias Against Rural Students?

April 25, 2011

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...

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Elitism and Education (Part III): Working Class Whites and Elite College Admissions

April 18, 2011

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...

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False Dichotomies of Class (Part I): Mobility versus Mobilization

April 12, 2011

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...

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Widening Spatial Inequality and What to Do About It

April 4, 2011

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...

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