Here’s a quick book preview of a 2017 paperback by
University of California law professor Joan C. Williams, “White Working Class:
Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America” from Harvard Business Review Press.
Dr. Williams appeared on Fareed Zakaria on CNN Saturday morning
Dec. 21 to discuss how the American public and especially the former Democratic
party elite is clueless as to the problems faced by white rural working class
Americans, which are more similar to the problems of urban PoC than they
realize. This triggers the explanation
of “why Trump won” according to PragerU.
The book has a preface by entrepreneur Mark Cuban (Shark
Tank) which explains his own humble upbringing in a family that lay carpets for
a living. When he moved away to Dallas
and started earning money as a bartender and in sales, he broke away from it,
but he seems to attribute some of that to fortune.
Williams provides her own preface where she takes an ambivalent
stance on current criticisms of “identity politics” as by Mark Lilla. She also slams the personal attitude of many
people toward other white working class people who do badly and wind up on opioids
or run around with weapons.
There will be a full review on Wordpress soon.
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