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Cross-class Relationships

Trump Supporters: Why Our Attitude Towards Them Matters

January 29, 2018 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

Not Stupid. Not Crazy. Those are the two most important things for progressives to remember about rightwing people, says Chip Berlet. He has tracked U.S. far-right populist movements for the past 30 years, including going to the events of white nationalist groups and the Tea Party. If you want to understand them, and even more […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in Politics, Cross-class Relationships, Politics and Class Tagged With: blaming the victim, classism, snobs, stereotypes, working class

Cross Class Dialogue Circle

December 20, 2017 by Alana Fichman Leave a Comment

It was on a bulletin at a local coffee shop, Cross Class Dialogue Circle. What did those words mean? Cross made me think of the patterns on top of a pie. Class, I thought I knew what that was: divisions based on wealth and a word I always flinched at for some reason. Dialogue, easy: a […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Cross-class alliances, Cross-class Relationships, Dismantlng Classism Tagged With: activism, class cultures, classism, community organizing, downward mobility, health care, social movements

Risk Telling the Truth

September 29, 2016 by Abraham Lateiner 1 Comment

I thought I was going to be a career teacher. But after a decade, I hit bottom. Teaching in inner-city schools, I saw the barriers my students faced and confronted my own limits caused by my vastly different experience growing up. I had some positive, uplifting experiences, but I wasn’t very resilient, and I kept […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in the Economy, Cross-class alliances, Cross-class Relationships, Cultural capital, Dealing with privilege, Dismantlng Classism, Money, Owning class Tagged With: classism, privilege, race and class, racism, super-rich

Being an Owning-Class Activist

September 29, 2016 by Jennifer Ladd Leave a Comment

All of us are more than a label, right? We each are more than one of our identities standing by itself. We are complex, changing, contradictory beings, and a mystery in many ways. And yet, our identities do matter – at the very same time as those identities are not all of who we are. […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Class cultures, Cross-class alliances, Cross-class Relationships, Dealing with privilege, Dismantlng Classism, Owning class Tagged With: activism, community organizing, money, owning class, privilege, social movements, super-rich

No Interest in Sharing the Wealth?

June 8, 2016 by Kate Poole 3 Comments

As a young person with inherited wealth who is public about my identity, sometimes my friends will ask me for a gift or for a loan. I don’t always say yes, but when I do lend money, I don’t charge interest. This comic makes a case for people with more than enough financial wealth to […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Cross-class alliances, Cross-class Relationships, Dealing with privilege Tagged With: money, owning class, Rationalizing privilege

Cross-Class Dating

February 12, 2015 by Emily Loftis 1 Comment

When I first met my current boyfriend, I probably couldn’t have guessed what kind of family he came from. Social class in America isn’t really something we ask people about directly but it plays a huge role in almost every aspect of a person’s life. When you meet someone for the first time it’s impossible […]

Filed Under: Cross-class Relationships

When Love Crosses Class Lines

February 12, 2015 by Jessi Streib Leave a Comment

What’s it like to be married to someone who grew up in a different class? If you asked most of the 64 college-educated adults who I interviewed who did so, they would tell you that it was like being married to anyone else. Most said that they loved their partner deeply, and, like all couples, […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Cross-class Relationships, Money Tagged With: class cultures, couples, middle class, working class

Intrusions on solidarity work

July 9, 2014 by Liz Oppenheimer Leave a Comment

For the past year, I have been having conversations in the predominantly White, middle class, progressive faith community where I worship, about making choices so that our actions would match up with our “all for equality” attitudes. Many times I have said things to my fellow worshipers like… “In order to show up for justice […]

Filed Under: Cross-class Relationships, Dealing with privilege, Owning class Tagged With: individualism, owning class, solidarity, working class

Should Americans Talk About Class?

June 26, 2014 by Abraham Lateiner 1 Comment

Helllllllllllllll yes! “But why?” some ask. Good question. My short answer: because talking about class is revolutionary. American society as a whole, as judged by my Super Scientific Approach of paying attention to popular culture, has gotten steadily better at talking about gender, race, and sexual orientation. But start talking about class, and we approach… […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life, Cross-class Relationships, Dealing with privilege Tagged With: cross-class dialogue, silence about class, stereotypes

Crossing the Gap in 5 Minutes

January 17, 2013 by Pete Daly 3 Comments

How can a physician easily work with the poor and earn their respect, trust, and affection?  The key is feeling genuine respect. I have worked with urban poor, working class, and underserved rural patients now for 30 years.  What jumps out at me is how everyone incorporates their place in the US class system and then acts […]

Filed Under: Cross-class Relationships, Workplace classism Tagged With: classism, health care, listening, respect

Leaving the Cafeteria: an Outsider’s Perspective on Intercity Students

December 17, 2012 by David Perelman Leave a Comment

One of my greatest privileges of my high school and college education was not the fact that I went to accredited institutions, nor the fact that I was simply educated, (though the latter privilege is certainly noteworthy.) It was the fact that despite being restricted to schools that were by design socially exclusive at-face, (my […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education, Cross-class Relationships

“Wishing for Heaven”: Cross-Class Relationships and Contemporary Culture

November 1, 2012 by Robin Brooks 1 Comment

Class representations are present in many aspects of contemporary culture. Think about the latest TV sitcoms, five star movies, and literary novels. Sure, the word “class” may not be used always, but hints of class or class indicators, such as income, education, occupation, and power, certainly appear in one form or another. Cross-class relationships in […]

Filed Under: Class in Literature, Cross-class Relationships, Pop Culture Classism Tagged With: cross-class, middle class, working class

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