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White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes
During election years white people who do not have bachelor’s degrees (the increasingly common definition of “the working class”) become both a somewhat exotic who-knew-they-were-here-and-in-such-large-numbers object of discussion and a target for freewheeling social psychologizing. Thus, it is more than … Continue reading →
Losing the Narrative of Their Lives
A study released a few weeks ago, conducted by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, documented a significant increase in the death rate among the white working class in the US, much of it due to suicide and substance abuse. In … Continue reading →
‘Struggle Street’: hard-hitting documentary or middle-class voyeurism?
A new Australian television show, Struggle Street, has attracted much controversy and commentary. The three-part documentary was commissioned by the public broadcaster, SBS, and made by KEO films. The production company’s web site describes Struggle Street as an ‘observational documentary’ … Continue reading →
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield, Working-Class Culture
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Tagged poverty porn, Struggle Street, working-class stories
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We’re Here! We’re Queer! We’re Not Going Shopping!
In 2002, when I was soliciting submissions for the anthology Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life, I received this message on a Working-Class Studies listserv: “Excuse me for saying so, but isn’t … Continue reading →
Posted in Class at the Intersections, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues
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Tagged class and sexuality, LGBTQ stereotypes, queer studies, working-class stories
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“Let’s Get To Work” — on the Weekends!
I started following Ed Schultz, the beefy, loud mouthed, pro-labor MSNBC anchor on Twitter a year ago last spring, when Pennsylvania education cuts were starting to reverberate across the state, forcing thousands of K-12 schools to cut art, band, music, … Continue reading →
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman
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Tagged Chris Hayes, Class and the Media, Ed Schultz, MSNBC, The Ed Show, working-class stories
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News for the Consumer Class
It is no surprise to readers of newspapers – or readers of this blog — that newspapers contain little coverage of labor and working-class economic issues. Although I’d hesitate to say there was ever a “golden era” of labor coverage, there … Continue reading →
This American Strife: What Happened To The Working Class In The Mike Daisey Retraction?
On March 18, the popular public-radio program This American Life issued an unprecedented retraction of the now-infamous episode in which performer Mike Daisey recounts his supposedly firsthand experiences of exploitative labor practices at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China that … Continue reading →
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues
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Tagged Apple, Daisey, exploitation, Foxconn, This American Life, working conditions, working-class stories
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