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S.M. Miller

S.M. Miller

About S.M. Miller

S. M. Miller (Mike), the co-author of "Rights and Respect: Class, Race and Gender Today" and more than a dozen other books, is an academic-activist involved in poverty, race, and class inequalities in the U.S. and other countries. He chaired the sociology department at Boston University. Currently, he sits on the board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and other advocacy organizations.

Obama’s State of the (Dis-)Union Speech, 2013

February 13, 2013 by S.M. Miller Leave a Comment

If you ain’t poor (by America’s low poverty standards), you are “middle class.” That is the current political and pundit mode of understanding the USA. Those below the middle class income standards have no claim to a class appellation—they are just “poor.” The president’s speech was largely about improving the situations of those already in […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class, Poverty Tagged With: childcare, immigrants, low-wage jobs, middle class, tax cuts

A cross-class dating anecdote

October 22, 2012 by S.M. Miller 1 Comment

At Brooklyn College, part of the City of New York’s public higher education system, I began to be acutely aware of class.  I asked a co-ed for a date, she agreed and gave me her address to pick her up on Saturday.  I noted that her address was in Flatbush, a middle income community unlike […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism in Everyday Life, First Generation College Students Tagged With: academia, cross-class relationships, first generation college students

Hiding the lunch ticket

January 16, 2012 by S.M. Miller 3 Comments

I was an outsider at my junior high school. Why was I ashamed of my family’s poverty? When my family lost its small business and home in Philadelphia and was forced to move to Brooklyn to live with one of my mother’s sister, I was in the middle of the last term of the sixth […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: classism, kids, public school

Illiterate in 3 languages

October 27, 2010 by S.M. Miller 2 Comments

At a meeting in Amman, Jordan, high-powered social policy analysts from many nations were deploring the limited intelligence of illiterates and the effects on their offspring; I rushed to defend illiterates. Then, I suddenly realized that my mother had been an illiterate. Indeed, I quickly recognized that Mom was illiterate in three languages. But she […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: illiteracy intelligence book-learning

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