Category Archives: Poverty

ClassCrits VII Call for Papers & Participation, Nov. 14-15, 2014 U.C. Davis

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Martha McCluskey

ClassCrits VII,  Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis, Sponsored by U.C. Davis School of Law, Davis, CA,  November 14-15, 2014.   See below and top bar for more details on the theme, possible topics, … Continue reading →

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Fineman responds to the Porsche argument against maternity coverage

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Martha McCluskey

Lest you think free market economists give no thought to fairness — or have little compassion for underinsured Americans — Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw recently worried that purchasers of individual health insurance can no longer choose to forgo the luxury … Continue reading →

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Imploring the Ivy League to attend to rural strivers

Posted on March 30, 2013 by ublawguest

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 →

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Symposium Issue on Critical Race Theory & Marxism

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Martha McCluskey

Kudos to Anthony Farley for organizing this fabulous collection in the JULY 2012 issue of the COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF RACE & LAW, featuring a number of ClassCrits scholars, and developed from the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference … Continue reading →

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The Devastating Disconnect Between Rich and Poor

Posted on February 12, 2012 by ublawguest

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 →

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Call for Papers and Participation in ClassCrits V: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream

Posted on January 20, 2012 by ublawguest

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 →

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Remembering Joe Bageant: Class Migrant, Class Warrior

Posted on October 14, 2011 by ublawguest

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 →

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D.C. Residents Say Class Divides Them More than Race

Posted on June 23, 2011 by ublawguest

By Lisa R. Pruitt The Washington Post reported a few days ago on a new poll of Washington, DC residents which found that “[m]ost District residents–black and white–see socioeconomic class, not race, as the primary source of a stark divide … Continue reading →

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Downsides to Class Privilege? Hardly a Trend

Posted on June 12, 2011 by ublawguest

By Lisa R. Pruitt Two recent news reports from very different parts of the world shared this theme: Affluence can have its drawbacks. The first story was Michael Wines, “Execution in a Killing that Fanned Class Rancor,” which reports the … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Law & Society panel: Structural Inequality and Violence against Women

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

At next week’s Law and Society 2011 Annual Meeting, a recommended panel making interesting connections between class, gender, and violence: Saturday, June 4, 4:30-6:15 Structural Inequalities & Violence Against Women, 3527 Organizers: Donna Coker& Deborah Weissman Chair/Discussant: Liz Schneider Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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