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Where We Stand Class Matters

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ISBN-10: 041592913X

ISBN-13: 9780415929134

Edition: 2000

Authors: bell hooks

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Where We Stand is a powerful new book by one of America's most admired critics and writers. For years we have turned to bell hooks-feminist, social thinker, memoirist, teacher-for her deeply felt ideas on women, race, culture, sexuality, and more recently on love and children. Now Bell Hooks talks about class-the 'elephant in the room'-the subject we all know is central to our culture and its problems but that hasn't been given the attention it so desperately needs. Why is it that the face of poverty in America is a black face, even though most of the thirty-six million poor in America are white? How do fantasies of wealth's power help keep the poor poor? What do black teens want, and how…    
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Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.638

Preface: where we stand
Introduction: Class Matters
Making the Personal Political: Class in the Family
Coming to Class Consciousness
Class and the Politics of Living Simply
Money Hungry
The Politics of Greed
Being Rich
The Me-Me Class: The Young and the Ruthless
Class and Race: The New Black Elite
Feminism and Class Power
White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility
Solidarity with the Poor
Class Claims: Real Estate Racism
Crossing Class Boundaries
Living without Class Hierarchy