Archive: White Working Class

• WCP: Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor

  This election season has brought a renewed focus on the white working class that has manifested in books that engage this typically neglected demographic. This week, Georgetown professor Pamela Fox

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Pamela Fox, Shameless, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Working Class, Working Poor, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes

  Why is it that every U.S. presidential election brings a renewed focus on the white working class? Two new books that shed light on this otherwise neglected demographic - White Trash: The 400-Year U

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Hillbilly Elegy, Jack Metzgar, JD Vance, John Russo, Nancy Isenberg, Poverty, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Trash, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Solidarity, Not Division: Understanding London’s East End

  There is a troubling stereotype that has gained hold on either side of the Atlantic that portrays working-class people as racist and resentful. Many commentators have incorrectly attributed the woes

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: East End, Gentrification, Great Britain, Immigration, John Russo, London, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• 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

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Death rates, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Life expectancy, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• 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

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Connie Schultz, Donald Trump, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Sarah Palin, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives