Where we stand : class matters (2000) ISBN: 978-0415929134

May 13, 2008 – Pages xi – 120
May 20, 2008 – Pages 121 – 164

preface: where we stand vii
introduction: Class Matters 1

1 Making the Personal Political: Class in the Family 10
2 Coming to Class Consciousness 24
3 Class and the Politics of Living Simply 38
4 Money Hungry 50
5 The Politics of Greed 63
6 Being Rich 70
7 The Me-Me Class: The Young and the ruthless 80
8 Class and Race: The New Black elite 89
9 Feminism and Class Power 101
10 White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility 111
11 Solidarity with the Poor 121
12 Class Claims: Real Estate Racism 131
13 Crossing Class Boundaries 142
14 Living without Class Hierarchy 156

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introduction: Class Matters

Gap between rich and poor, thirty-eight million in poverty, class, the face of poverty, homelessness, class-free society, social mobility, class struggle, transnational white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, Marx, Fanon, Gramsci, Memmi, little red book, William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race. interlocking systems of race, gender, and class, class politics, disenfranchised, economic justice, know where we stand.

1 Making the Personal Political: Class in the Family

1200 Broad St, Hopkinsville, KY, aesthetics, delphiniums, tulips, marigolds, “colored infantry,” racial apartheid, working class.

2 Coming to Class Consciousness

class shame, Japanese plum tree, kumquat, bougainvillea, cheating, class privilege, black bourgeois elite, black diaspora, surrender memory, assimilate, allegiance, always reexamine where we stand.

3 Class and the Politics of Living Simply

Book of Matthew 25:, communism, capitalism, David Hilfiker, “Naming Our Gods.” Christian ethics, Gershen Kaufman and Lev Raphael, Coming Out of Shame. impact of shame, solidarity, Karl Anderson, Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class. class shame (food), socialists, paternalism, liberation theologists, oppressive capitalism, Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity. hedonistic consumption, communalism vs. self-interest, new age thought, greed, wealth, pathological hysteria, mass-based empathy, class terrorism, genocidal acts, malnutrition, starvation, deride, degrade, devalue, strategic assault, conspicuous consumption, complicity, exploitation, withholding resources, “generosity,” condescension, humanity, gluttonous consumption, communitarian values, ethics of compassion, loving kindness, harmony.

4 Money Hungry

material resources, avarice, domination, financial withholding, gender roles, generosity, dependency, Arlie Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. manipulative use of money, decoy, class shame (clothes), bohemians, budget, savings, financial planning, economically dependent, economic self-sufficiency, trust funds, inheritances, Buddhist thought, Christian teachings, living simply, luxury vs. excess, selfishness, greedy voice, principled practice of sharing, vicissitudes of greed, indulge, hoarding, Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money. capacity for greed, spiritual materialism, ostentatious materiality, flaunting of excess, overidentification with material objects, culture of greed.

5 The Politics of Greed

childhood imprints, hedonistic consumer culture, decline of religious practice, ethics of greed, culture of narcissism, fear of scarcity, individual accountability, self-centered materialism, Zillah Eisenstein, Global Obscenities. forego allegiance, class interests, fiscal conservative, classless society, class mobility, multimass media, tokens, greed-based predatory capitalism, destroy affectional bonds, legitimized beneficiaries, exploitation, genocide, ruling class mercenaries, imperialistic economies, morally bankrupt, eschew responsibility, survival of the greediest, hopelessness.

6 Being Rich

class interests, television, Zillah Eisenstein, Global Obscenities. Roseanne, Frank’s Place, “status is…” articles in New York Times magazine, class vs. status, preying upon vs. preyed upon, miserly, hoarding, “lack”, throwaway culture, mass media seduction, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25, spiritual elect, imperialistic violence, allegiance to class hierarchy, democratic vision of prosperity.

7 The Me-Me Class: The Young and the ruthless

wanton, wasteful, unlimited resources, unlimited access, youth culture, consumption, symbolically “classless”, multicultural multiethnic shopping spree, “I’m O.K., you’re Selfish” in New York Times magazine, consumer-driven dream, shame (lacking signs of material success), John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You. predatory culture, Clueless, Anywhere But Here, South Park, predatory ruling class, range of class positionalities, nihilism, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. Brainwashing, self-worth, politics of greed, core identity, belief system, beloved community, eduction for critical consciousness, consumer capitalism, politics of predatory greed.

8 Class and Race: The New Black elite

African explorers, color caste hierarchy, racial uplift, W. E. B. DuBois, talented tenth, E. Franklin Frazier, class-based civil rights struggle, desegregation, U.S. imperialistic economic domination, allied, white power structure, status, power, modern-day concentration camps, individual liberalism, black capitalism, self-determination, assimilation, Ellis Closs Cose, The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?. anti-racist struggle, conservative black elites, class power, progressive visionary underprivileged, radical privileged class, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., miseducation, quality education, organized visionary radical movement for social justice, systemic exploitation, racial solidarity, anti-racist struggle, sour grapes, class elitism, black on black class cruelty, “Conversion empowers; judgmental assaults alienate.” empowerment without domination, constructive class solidarity, vision of class solidarity, constant radical commitment to social justice for all.

9 Feminism and Class Power

Charlotte Bunch and Nancy Myron (Compilers), Class and Feminism. Rita Mae Brown, sustained subordination, economic self-sufficiency, feminism = a movement to end sexism and sexist exploitation and oppression, interlocking systems, indentured slavery, subordinated groups, mass-based radical feminist movement, feminist consciousness.

10 White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility

Constance Penly Penley, White Trash: Race and Class in America. Doug Henwood, “Trash-O-Nomics.” Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.

11 Solidarity with the Poor

Jesus Christ Superstar, Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity.

12 Class Claims: Real Estate Racism

Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. Mary Barfoot, Bottom Fish Blues: The Coming of Black Genocide. Dennis Altman, The Americanization of the Homosexual: The Homosexualization of America.

13 Crossing Class Boundaries

Good Will Hunting, Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money.

14 Living without Class Hierarchy

Joan Garner, Chuck Collins, and Pam Rogers, Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change. Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life. Fred Newman, Let’s Develop. Julie Matthaei, “Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Economy: Paid Work, Unpaid Work, and the Next Stage of Feminist Economic Transformation.”