It’s not ‘them’, it’s us
by Betsy Leondar-Wright
The Top 10 Mistakes of Middle-Class Activists in Mixed-Class Groups
- Overlook necessity
- Overlook intelligence
- Romanticize working-class people
- Impose inessential weirdnesses (Read more about inessential weirdnesses)
- Hide who they really are
- Think they know it all
- Think they know nothing
- Focus on education more than organizing
- Focus on goals and tasks more than people
- Take over
Clothing, Hygiene and Shopping as Class and Race Issues
QUOTES FROM BARBARA SMITH, JOHN ANNER, AND GLORIA ANZALDÚA
Group Process And Class Cultures
Excerpt from Coalitions Across the Class Divide by Fred Rose
Middle-Class Counterculture Activists Doubly At Odds with Workers
Excerpt from Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-Class Left by David Croteau