Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures
Betsy Leondar-Wright
Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.The first comprehensive empirical study ... Read more
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Matthew Rothschild, Senior Editor
The Progressive
From fashion sense to senses of humor, Missing Class illustrates the subtle cues ... Read more