David Brooks to the contrary, culture and class are inextricably intertwined.
Sherry Linkon
Sherry Linkon is a professor of English at Georgetown University and a faculty affiliate of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Her book, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing About Economic Restructuring, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2018 and won the Working-Class Studies Association’s 2019 CLR James Award for the year’s best book. She is the editor of Working-Class Perspectives.
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Why the Dems Need to Talk About Economics AND Racism
A little intersectionality would go a long way.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Everybody Knows About Alabama
Doug Jones’s victory and a new play drawing on Nina Simone’s songs illustrate the opportunities and challenges we face in 2018.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Youngstown, Economic Nationalism, and the Half-Life of Deindustrialization
The closure of an Ohio steel mill sent thousands into low-wage jobs and kicked off a politics of resentment that powers left- and right-wing populist movements today.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘Detroit’ and Charlottesville
Fifty years may separate the riots in the two cities, but the root causes and the remedies remain the same.
Posted inEconomic Policy
He’s Back! Trump Returns to Youngstown
And despite his campaign promises, this onetime powerhouse of industrial America is still beleaguered—and could lose lots of jobs if Obamacare is repealed or replaced.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Factory Towns to Trump: Don’t Defend Yourself by Invoking Us!
Pittsburgh and Youngstown push back against the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.