When Gender Didn’t Matter
The January 2018 issue of New Labor Forum, off press this week, grapples with perhaps the most perplexing of the 2016
Read moreThe January 2018 issue of New Labor Forum, off press this week, grapples with perhaps the most perplexing of the 2016
Read moreDeciphering the political enigma of the women’s vote.
Read moreIn the aftermath of the 2016 election, there have been hundreds of reflections written on the behavior, attitudes, needs, and prospects of the “white working class,” a segment of the population that will prove vital to any progressive coalition that stands for both social and economic justice. But what do we mean by “white working class”?
Read moreI am pleased to open a conversation with G. Cristina Mora and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz about census data and what they
Read moreThat politics undergirds censuses is a truism. At least since Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and
Read moreIn the press, debates over affirmative action in higher education pit liberals (who support taking race into account in admissions) and conservatives (who oppose it). But there is a third way on the issue—affirmative action based on class, rather than race—which is far more progressive than our current system of racial preferences, the class-based approach is quickly gaining ground.
Read moreThe crash and rescue of the banking system and the surge of unemployment, foreclosure, and sweeping cuts in social services
Read moreFormer 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum caught hell when he called President Obama a snob for wanting everyone to
Read moreChavs: The Demonization of the Working Class By Owen Jones Verso, 2011 Reviewed by James Rhodes In his 2011 book,
Read moreA 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that more than half of Americans rank
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