Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Introduction: Working Class; Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz 1. Class Dismissed: The Issue Is Accountability; bell hooks 2. Letter from a Lovelorn Pre-Radical: Looking Forward and Backward at Martin Luther King Jr.; Kevin Bruyneel, 3. In Search of a New Left, Then and Now; Dick Howard 4. The Status of Class; Stanley Aronowitz 5. 'Fix the Tired': Cultural Politics and the Struggle for Shorter Hours; Kristin Lawler 6. Literary and Real Life Salesmen and the Performance of Class; Jon Dietrick 7. Money Changes Everything?: African American Class-Based Attitudes toward LBGT Issues; Ravi K. Perry, Yasmiyn Irizarry, and Timothy J. Fair 8. Democracy without Class: Investigating the Political Unconscious of the United States; M. Lane Bruner 9. Re-Forming Class: Wealth, Culture, and Identity in South Africa; Lisa Nell 10. Whiteness as Currency: Rethinking the Exchange Rate; Emily M. Drew 11. Dying with Class: Race, Religion, and the Commodification of a Good Death; Ann Neumann 12. New Materialisms and Digital Culture: Productive Labor and the Software Wars; Ted Kafala 13. Feminist Theory and the Critique of Class; Robin Truth Goodman 14. Criminal Class; Eric Anthamatten 15. Consuming Class: Identity & Power through the Commodification of Bourgeois Culture, Celebrity, and Glamour; Raúl Rubio 16. When Prosperity Is Built on Poverty, There Can Be No Foundation for Peace, as Poverty and Peace Don't Stand Hand in Hand; Pepi Leistyna 17. Solon the Athenian and the Origins of Class Struggle; Thomas Thorp 18. Memories of Class and Youth in the Age of Disposability; Henry A. Giroux