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The Color of Class. Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege.

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Description for The Color of Class. Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege. Paperback. What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.

"Even though we lived a few blocks away in our neighborhood or sat a seat or two away in elementary school, a vast chasm of class and racial difference separated us from them."—From the Introduction

What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while, at the same time, surrounded by the glowing assumption of racial privilege? Kirby Moss, an African American anthropologist and journalist, goes back to his hometown in the Midwest to examine ironies of social class in the lives of poor whites. He purposely moves beyond the most stereotypical image of white poverty in the ... Read more

Ultimately Moss seeks to write an ethnography not only of whiteness but of blackness as well. For in struggling with the elusive question of class difference in U.S. society, Moss finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812218510
SKU
V9780812218510
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About Kirby Moss
Kirby Moss lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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