Where We Stand: Class MattersDrawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them. |
Contents
Class Matters | 1 |
Making the Personal Political Class in the Family | 10 |
Coming to Class Consciousness | 24 |
Class and the Politics of Living Simply | 38 |
Money Hungry | 50 |
The Politics of Greed | 63 |
Being Rich | 70 |
The MeMe Class The Young and the Ruthless | 80 |
Class and Race The New Black Elite | 89 |
Feminism and Class Power | 101 |
White Poverty The Politics of Invisibility | 111 |
Solidarity with the Poor | 121 |
Class Claims Real Estate Racism | 131 |
Crossing Class Boundaries | 142 |
Living without Class Hierarchy | 156 |
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