Class Matters

My 2004 book, Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists, includes my own stories of class and classism in social movements, interviews with diverse savvy activists, and excerpts from books on class and classism.

The book is out of print, but you can find it in some libraries and used online book sellers. And I have some copies, so email me if you want to buy one – betsy@classmatters.org

 

I took the ideas on the road, to over 30 events and 80 radio shows - getting activists talking about cross-class coalitions all across the US.
Betsy Leondar-Wright

I made a website with these excerpts from the book:

    1. Class Intersecting with Other Identities
    2. Class & community organizing
    3. Classism of Middle-Class Activists
    4. Counterculture blues
    5. Are there class cultures?
    6. Advice for Middle-Class Activists
    7. Class & the protests during the 2000 election campaign
    8. Class definitions

I also asked questions and posted visitors’ responses:

  1. How do you experience class differently because of your race, ethnic group, religion, gender, age, or other identity? What class dynamics do you notice within your identity groups?
  2. What’s the most classist thing you ever heard someone say?
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