Classcrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity and Justice
Nov. 10-11, 2017
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This blog is the public manifestation of the ClassCrits Project. The blog focuses on law and economic inequality from a critical legal perspective. Supported by the University at Buffalo School of Law, participants in the ClassCrits Project - and this blog in particular - hope to start a discussion that puts economic inequality at the center rather than at the margins of mainstream law. [Read More]
Category Archives: Education
Thanks to Southwestern Law School, host of ClassCrits VI Conference
Kudos and great thanks to Southwestern Law School for fabulously hosting the ClassCrits conference this past weekend. Besides providing superb logistical support from first rate staff, Southwestern set the right tone for our discussions by providing an environment shining with … Continue reading
Imploring the Ivy League to attend to rural strivers
By Lisa R. Pruitt One of the most e-mailed items in the New York Times for the past day or so has been Claire Vaye Watkins “The Ivy League Was Another Planet.” (The alternative headline is “Elite Colleges Are As Foreign as … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Geography, mobility, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity
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Rurality and class as identity, in the context of an elite(ist) institution
By Lisa R. Pruitt I have been following recent news out of Amherst College about sexual assaults some students have committed against others–and the allegations that Amherst administrators previously tried to hush up these incidents, discouraging victims from pressing charges. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Gender, Geography, Uncategorized, Vulnerability
Tagged violence against women
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It’s all relative
By Lisa R. Pruitt That cliche was brought to mind by several news stories in recent weeks, all related to class in one way or another, so I use it here to consider these stories and the issues they raise … Continue reading
New AAUP guidelines on academic-business ties: more Field Notes on the Political Economy of Academia
Kudos to classcrits colleague Risa L. Lieberwitz, Cornell ILR and labor law scholar, for her work with AAUP on new draft guidelines governing academic conflicts of interest and integrity, quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ambitious AAUP Effort to … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Law Schools, Legal Theory, Political Economic of Academia
Tagged aaup, Academic Integrity, Conflicts of Interest, Disclosure, Fracking, Gerald Epstein, law and economics, Martha T Mccluskey, PERI, Risa L Lieberwitz
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Distinguishing science from “market” power? Field notes on the political economy of academia
It’s become common wisdom in the U.S. that non-transparent big money largely drives elections, legislatures, regulatory agencies, and much of the judicial system, eroding the public trust and reinforcing perceptions that law and politics, as well as economics, operates largely … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Free market ideology, Heterodox Economics, Legal Theory, Morality and Economics, politics
Tagged Charles Ferguson, history of economics playground, INET, Inside Job, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Martha McCluskey, Predator Nation, SUNY, Tiago Mata
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Higher Education Access and the Reproduction of Privilege
By Lisa R. Pruitt Two recent items in the New York Times have caught my attention in relation to how access to higher education reproduces privilege and undermines class mobility. One is “Cuts Threaten Access to College Placement Tests,” for which a … Continue reading
The Devastating Disconnect Between Rich and Poor
Posted by Lisa R. Pruitt The Occupy Wall Street movement has recently drawn national attention to economic inequality, and several new studies and a book just published also invite us to consider the acuteness of this inequality, as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Geography, Labor, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Uncategorized
Tagged culture
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Call for Papers and Participation in ClassCrits V: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream
This workshop, the fifth meeting of ClassCrits, takes on class and the American dream as its theme. The most quintessentially American trait may be our capacity to look past current misfortune and imagine a brighter future. Americans love a “rags … Continue reading
Remembering Joe Bageant: Class Migrant, Class Warrior
By Lisa R. Pruitt Americans like to think they live in a society unstratified by class, a society of equal opportunity, where the American dream survives. Joe Bageant, a journalist turned cultural critic, challenged these myths with inimitable intensity, compassion, … Continue reading
Posted in Class, economic and social rights, Education, Geography, politics, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity
Tagged rural
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