Class matters why

With this book, Middleton and Smith have admirably succeeded in energizing the study of social relations in the Atlantic world. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world.

As a whole, they chart the emergence of class as a concept and its subsequent loss of analytic purchase in Anglo-American historiography. Their ideas go unheeded in a time when we need new approaches to our societal challenges. Class divisions and classism, the institutional and internalized rulebooks of class, diminish our capacity as a nation to live into our legacy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A movement for social change has grown out of these discussions that has actively changed conditions and consciousness that affect women and people of color. Discussions about class and classism however have remained dormant in the public domain. Class and classism remain a taboo topic.

We believe that each of us derive strengths as well as limitations from whatever our class position. Because of the intense class segregation in the U. Time and time again social change movements have been born from people gathering and sharing their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in small groups, only to emerge with strategic, creative plans for actions that create the world we want to live in. Class Action inspires action to end classism and extreme inequality by providing tools , training and inspiration to raise awareness, understand the relationship of class and race, shift cultural beliefs about social class, build cross-class solidarity and transform institutions and systems.

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