Archive: John Russo
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WCP: Teaching Work and Learning from Working-Class Students
We have a lot to learn from working-class students, who face unique challenges in higher education. As Tim Strangleman points out in this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, students who are inv
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WCP: Justice for Hillsborough: Working-Class Solidarity Prevails
When 96 football fans in Great Britain were unlawfully killed in a 1989 disaster, police and media covered up the negligence of senior police officers and laid the blame on working-class supporters.
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WCP: Parts and Wholes: Unpacking Reports of White Working-Class Death Rates
A study finding increased mortality for the white working-class drew a lot of attention last fall. Yet as Jack Metzgar demonstrates in this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, the focus on race
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WCP: Art for whose Sake? Working-Class Life in Visual Art
--- What does it mean that most museums offer few images of working-class life? The ones that do tend to show workers from the outside through middle-class perspectives. In this week's Working-Clas
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WCP: From Paula Jones to Trailer Parks: Journalists’ Class Blind Spots
Journalists who discuss class often rely on stereotypes and generalizations. As John Russo writes in this week's Working-Class Perspective post, that is partially attributed to the fact that so few
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WCP: Happy Valley: Cops, Killers, and Working-Class Community
Happy Valley satisfies all of the Kalmanovitz criteria for a worthy television series: it has a perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it features engaging representations of working-class characters, a
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WCP: Class and the EU Referendum
In June, UK citizens will decide whether their country will remain a member of the European Union. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Tim Strangleman reflects on how working class voters in G
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WCP: Redefining the Working Class
In this week's Working-Class Perspective post, John Russo and Sherry Linkon team up to call for an expanded understanding and updated definition of the working class. "Historians have argued that th
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WCP: Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Each election season brings a stream of punditry about the white working class. As Jack Metzgar observes in this week's Working-Class Perspective, commentators try to explain their voting patterns b
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WCP: The Global Working Class in Art House Cinema
Have you already finished House of Cards, Season Four? Want to learn about working-class culture around the globe but can't travel? In today's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield recommends ei
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