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Where We Stand: Class Matters

Synopsis:
The renowned writer on feminism and race draws on theory and experience once again—to tackle the ever present, yet strangely elusive, issue of class in American life.

First Line:
“Everywhere we turn in our daily lives in this nation we are confronted with the widening gap between rich and poor.”

Where we stand - bell hooks

First Line: “Everywhere we turn in our daily lives in this nation we are confronted with the widening gap between rich and poor.”
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Author(s): Bell Hooks

ISBN: 0-415-92913-x

Publisher: Routledge

Original Price: $16.95

Rating: 8 of 10

This incisive examination of class is rooted in cultural critic hooks’s (All About Love) personal experience, political commitment, and social theory, which links gender, race, and class. Starting with her working-class childhood, the author illustrates how everyday interactions reproduce class hierarchy while simultaneously denying its existence. Because she sustains an unflinching gaze on both her own personal motivations and on persistent social structures, hooks provides a valuable framework for discussing such difficult and unexplored areas as greed, the quest to live simply, the ruling-class co-optation of youth through popular culture, and real estate speculation as an instrument of racism. Although the reading level and the price are both steep, this title is highly recommended for most public libraries and academic social science collections.
DPaula R. Dempsey, DePaul Univ. Lib., Chicago
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