Comments on: Middle Class Privilege

By: z

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:03:52 +0000

“I can enter a school or an educational institution and feel I can direct what happens rather than be blamed for any problems with my child’s learning/development.”

This is interesting, wish I could hear more abt this.

By: Understanding Privilege | Social Problems

Understanding Privilege | Social Problems — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:39:21 +0000

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By: Understanding Privilege « Social Problems

Understanding Privilege « Social Problems — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:50:48 +0000

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By: Jaymthegenius

Jaymthegenius — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:44:26 +0000

Our being epater les bourgeois (i.e.: Shocking to the middle class) and uncouth is actually a fun activity. We will appear at a casual dinner party in Black tie, and appear at a black tie party with casual attire. And our boys’ hair will touch their blazers while in school, maybe they will pass gas in chapel. We will play annoying noise from boom cars that lack any real musical value, we will throw mattresses on our lawn since we know that ignorance annoys people.

Long live the working-class rebellion!

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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:50:01 +0000

[...] To illustrate, when you have class privilege in U.S. society, you are likely to fluently speak the default language, or English, you are likely aware of social manners, of how to dress appropriatley for certain occasions (as well as able to afford such clothes), you likely will be able to access needed information and funding to get the education you desire, and you will likely have a network that introduces you to friends of your same class as well as affords you job opportunities in keeping with your class status. (For more items on the class privilege list, see here.) [...]

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The chief exercise of privilege « Jesurgislac’s Journal — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:38:33 +0000

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By: janevangalen

janevangalen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:20:21 +0000

Carmelson,

Thanks for stopping by. Someone had sent me over to your blog recently and I have subscribed. When life clears just a bit for me (I can still hope), I’ll get back to posting more and will link more formally.

I’m very interested in pushing those conversations about the intersections of class and race and gender. In my field, class is conflated almost entirely with race so that even critical texts will frame the discussion about justice and reform in schools as being about the different experiences of “poor children and children of color” and “middle class whites”.

Enough! It’s just not that simple.

Jane

By: caramelson

caramelson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:11:41 +0000

Greetings.

I enjoyed the article. I also pen a blog called the Young Black Professional guide and have written about this meme a couple of times, most recently

What’s interesting to me, as an African-American male, is the differences I see despite being in the same class and ‘assuming’ the same privileges you mention and your readers’ have added above.

Those who are Black and in the middle class, upper middle class have similar sentiments, but society, most times, does not often afford them to us consistently. It often retreats to its bigoted and slanted portrayal of our lowest common denominator and uses that fear against us in random police stops, retelling of our history, and racial makeup in our schools.

You have an interesting article, but I just wanted to throw additional perspective out there that these memes sometimes do not cross racial lines, despite being in the same class.

Thanks.

By: janevangalen

janevangalen — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:01:10 +0000

Thanks for the great additions Tabatha.

You remind me of one for those of us in higher ed:

When I speak on behalf of lower-income students in our program and ways that we could make the costs of our program more affordable, I’m engaged and not ignored.

By: tabatha atwood

tabatha atwood — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:22:58 +0000

if i am attacked i am recognized as the victim

this is sticking in my mind-