Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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WCP: Rethinking Working-Class Belonging
Belonging is a central theme and a strength of working-class culture, a source of pleasure and of collective agency. Yet it can also be divisive, emphasizing how "we" are different from "them" -- a w
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WCP: Toxic Class Encounters
While more working-class students have entered colleges and universities in the last few decades, neither the entitled behavior of more privileged students nor the prejudices against working-class st
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What happened to America’s working class? Race, Gender, Capitalism, and Power.
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham gave a series of talks at the University of Wisconsin in coordination with the The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Talks entitled, "Blue-Collar Battle: Th
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WCP: Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
All too often, political commentators describe working-class whites as if they were all the same -- ignorant, backward, deplorable. But as Jack Metzgar writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week,
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Race, Workers, and Voter Suppression (Video)
Voter suppression in the United States has a corrosive effect on elections and participation in the political process. When combined with the steady erosion of workers' rights, however, voter suppres
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Join Us at the “I’ll Be There” Awards with DC Jobs with Justice
KI is a proud supporter of DC Jobs With Justice and its work supporting DC workers and working families. In about three weeks, DC Jobs with Justice will hold its annual I'll Be There Awards, honoring
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Immigration, Human Rights, and Global Economic Renewal (Video)
On Friday October 16, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a distinguished panel of experts for an online forum, Immigration, Human Rights, and Global Economic Renewal. Hosted by Leon Fink, the editor o
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WCP: Why Trump will lose Ohio
After Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 and Republicans swept statewide elections there in 2018, Ohio seemed to have moved firmly to the right. But as John Russo writes in Working-Class Perspectives this
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WCP: The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers
Home health care workers, nannies, cleaners, and other domestic workers earn low wages and have little job security.
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Students’ Role in Fighting Gentrification (Video)
KI hosted a candid conversation on the individual responsibility and systemic action necessary to fight gentrification, with a particular focus on the role of college students.
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