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And like poor kids, working-class kids may be less likely to have the kind of school records that make them eligible for admissi ...

And then there’s that uncomfortable fact that some aren’t suited to intellectual work. “The mantra on more college, more college ...

Finally, there are the insults working-class students experience in the classroom. “[M]any of the professors resented having to ...

CHAPTER 7 Why Don’t They Push Their Kids Harder to Succeed? CHILDREN LEARN CLASS at their mothers’ knee. Childrearing, like so m ...

that the busy schedules might pay off “job-wise” but expressed serious reservations: “I think he is a sad kid”; “He must be dead ...

responsibility, and strategizing.”^132 As a result of his greater independence, “Tyrec learned important life skills not availab ...

CHAPTER 8 Is the Working Class Just Racist? LET’S STATE RIGHT UP FRONT that racism is an issue in the white working class, and i ...

displacing the blame for racism onto less-privileged whites. If you think you’re not racist at all, drop this book and head imme ...

an educated housewife from working-class Canarsie. “I don’t care about the color of a person if they’re nice people. The black p ...

to change. The goal of mainstream politicians of both parties should be to drive a wedge between the viciousness of white suprem ...

threatened, they can’t change, they can’t listen.”^150 What causes people to change their minds are conversations designed to ma ...

Hochschild aptly maps the sense of losing ground, the contour map of resentment. “After the 2008 crash... some got rich, others ...

commented Erin Brown.* (“Fly-over” is another casual class insult that passes for wit.) “We try to be right-living, clean-living ...

make that a logical choice and the cultural factors that make it an attractive one.^169 But when it comes to working-class white ...

CHAPTER 9 Is the Working Class Just Sexist? IN THE 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and her surrogates hammered ...

their insurance,” observed a Chattanooga student studying to be a mortgage broker.^175 Trump won among white working-class women ...

housewife ideal for two brief generations. By the twenty-first century, a new generation of workers had lost the ability to sust ...

What about working-class men? How much of their rapport with Trump can be dismissed as sexism? Trump was seen as standing up for ...

man to be reckoned with. Trump was a real man. Clinton? A nasty woman. No doubt working-class men felt threatened by the change ...

More than half the men in Generation X and the Baby Boom said that when they left HBS, they expected that their careers would ta ...