{"product_id":"missing-class-9780801452567","title":"Missing Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that run the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetsy Leondar-Wright's book is crucially important for social justice activists. She offers much-needed advice about how to acknowledge your class background and harness it for the greater good. Eye-opening and insightful, this book provides a new way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Matthew Rothschild, Senior Editor * The Progressive *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom fashion sense to senses of humor, \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the subtle cues in which class disparities manifest within activist groups. In a context where class is sometimes conspicuously missing from our stories, this is a welcome reminder to put it back in.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Louis Esparza * Mobilization *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cannot recommend\u003ci\u003e Missing Class\u003c\/i\u003e too highly. Some books stimulate you intellectually.... Some books deepen awareness.... Some books are practical.... It's rare to find a book that does one of these things well. A book that does all three, brilliantly, is beyond rare. It’s a historical event.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Milan Rai * Peace News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeondar-Wright's \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003eis by far the best book available on the touchy subject of 'classism' since her own previous work,\u003ci\u003eClass Matters: Cross-class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activist\u003c\/i\u003e, and Fred Rose's incisive 1999 study,\u003ci\u003eCoalitions across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Cornell. Like Rose before her, the author illustrates what bridges the divide—and what doesn't—within left-liberal groups and the broader, more diverse coalitions we need to alter power relationships in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Labor Studies Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's greatest virtue is that it makes a strong case that class cultures do create substantial barriers among activists and can undermine their groups’ efficacy. Anyone working with people of varying class back-grounds will appreciate the material presented in this book....\u003ci\u003eMissing Class \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-done book and a fine contribution to the study of social class in politics, and I hope that it will be a stepping stone for a new generation of research on activist groups that links internal processes with tangible outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fabio Rojas * Administrative Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Class Diversity among Activists\u003cbr\u003e 1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses\u003cbr\u003e 2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists\u003cbr\u003e 3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles\u003cbr\u003e 4. Movement Traditions and Their Class Cultural Troubles\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles\u003cbr\u003e 5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences I: Humor and Laughter\u003cbr\u003e 6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences II: Abstract and Concrete Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences III: Racial Terms\u003cbr\u003e 7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences IV: Talking Long, Talking Often\u003cbr\u003e 8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences V: Anger, Swearing, and Insults\u003cbr\u003e 9. Activists Behaving Badly: Responses to Extreme Behavior Violations\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences VI: Missing Class Talk\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Building a Movement with the Strengths of All Class Cultures\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405140795735,"sku":"9780801452567","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801452567.jpg?v=1730488855","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/missing-class-9780801452567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}