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Intracommunity Rejection: Racist, Classist, Tragic

June 2, 2013 by Lita Kurth Leave a Comment

The Facebook post showed a 1950’s cartoon businessman: blonde hair, suit and tie, saying, “No, you can’t ‘axe’ me a question. I don’t speak Walmart.”  A snotty enough putdown if it came from racial and class privilege. But it wasn’t posted by an upper-class or even a middle-class person, but a person who has struggled […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism, Race and Class Tagged With: classism, internalized classism, status

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