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  42. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: New Press, 2016), 114.

  43. Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), 119.

  44. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 139.

  45. Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t, 57, 69, 70, 71, 73–74.

  46. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 46–51.

  47. U.S. Census Bureau, “Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Summer 2006, Table 4: Children in Self-Care, by Age of Child, Employment Status of Mother, and Selected Characteristics for Children Living with Mother: Summer 2006,” http://www2.census.gov/topics/childcare/sipp/2006-detail-tabs/tab04.xls.

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  48. Tex Sample, Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus: Doing Ministry with Working Class Whites (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2006), 61.

  49. Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 137.

  50. Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2003), 140, 217–220.

  51. Bob Secter, “Walker’s Anti-Union Crusade Pivotal to White House Run, Damaging to Labor,” Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2015, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-scott-walker-wisconsin-unions-met-20150727-story.html.

  52. Michéle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 103.

  53. Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon, The American Perception of Class (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1987), 86–87.

  54. Julie Jargon, “Middle-Market Woes Inspire Starbucks’s Bet on Luxury Coffee,” Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/middle-market-woes-inspire-starbuckss-bet-on-luxury-coffee-1480966895.

  55. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Mariner Books, 2006).

  56. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: New Press, 2016), 182.

  57. Lareau, Unequal Childhoods, 146–151.

  58. Sample, Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus, 27.

  59. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (New York: Harper, 2016), 226.

  60. Suzanne Lebsock, “Snow Falling on Magnolias,” in Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections, ed. John B. Boles (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 296.

  61. Joan C. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 169–171.

  62. Lareau, Unequal Childhoods, 62–63.

  63. Mark Granovetter, Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 19.

  64. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 99, 108.

  65. Donna Langston, “Who Am I Now? The Politics of Class Identity,” in Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory, ed. Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 72.

  66. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 95.

  67. Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 107–108.

  68. Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t, 110, 112.

  69. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde.

  70. Edmund Burke and Isaac Kramnick, The Portable Edmund Burke (London: Penguin Classics, 1999), 259.

  71. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, 205.

  72. Confidential interview (Harvard-trained public-interest lawyer), Washington, D.C., 1999.

  73. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984).

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  74. Drawn from this list: http://unemployment-rates.careertrends.com/stories/21415/cities-with-highest-unemployment-rates#100-San-Luis-AZ.

  75. Ronald S. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 143–144.

  76. Alfred Lubrano, Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams (New York: Wiley, 2004), 108.

  77. Mary Blair-Loy, Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 1–2, 13, 34.

  78. Blair-Loy, Competing Devotions, 34, quoting Vicki Orlando (corporate lawyer).

  79. Michèle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 110.

  80. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Carroll Seron, Bonnie Oglensky, and Robert Sauté, The Part-Time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender (London: Routledge, 1999), 22.

  81. Marianne Cooper, “Being the ‘Go-To Guy’: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Organization of Work in Silicon Valley,” in Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds 5, ed. Naomi Gerstel et al. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), 26.

  82. Cooper, “Being the ‘Go-To Guy,’” 9.

  83. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 115–116.

  84. Emily Gipple and Ben Gose, “America’s Generosity Divide,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 19, 2012, https://www.philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Divide/156175.

  85. Capitol Heights: median income $71,114: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/capitol-heights-md/. Suitland: median income $56,951: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/suitland-md/.

  86. Maclean: median income $188,639: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/mclean-va/. Bethesda: income $145,288: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/bethesda-md/; https://www.philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Divide/156175.

  87. Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 80, 113.

  88. Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2003), 204.

  89. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: New Press, 2016), 106.

  90. Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010), 2.

  91. Andrew Cherlin, Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2014), 146.

  92. Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2005), 2.

  93. Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 133, 159–162.

  94. Gianpiero Petriglieri, “In Defense of Cosmopolitanism,” hbr.org, December 15, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/12/in-defense-of-cosmopolitanism.

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  95. Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980), 58.

  96. Camille L. Ryan and Kurt Bauman, “Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015,” http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf.

  97. John Schmitt and Heather Boushey, “The College Conundrum: Why the Benefits of a College Education May Not Be So Clear, Especially to Men,” Center for American Progress, December 2010, 1, https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2010/12/pdf/college_conundrum.pdf.

  98. Oliver Wright, “Don’t Wear Brown Shoes if You Want to Walk into City Job, The Times, September 1, 2016, http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dont-wear-brown-shoes-if-you-want-to-walk-into-city-job-gfcvt2ql2.

  99. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (New York: Harper, 2016), 212, 213.

  100. Lauren Rivera and An
drás Tilcsik, “Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume,” hbr.org, December 21, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-backfire-on-your-resume.

  101. “Some Colleges Have More Students from the Top 1 Percent than the Bottom 60. Find Yours,” New York Times, January 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2.

  102. Suzanne Mettler, Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 5.

  103. Lisa R. Pruitt, “The False Choice between Race and Class and Other Affirmative Action Myths,” Buffalo Law Review 63 (2015), 1038, citing Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), 97–98.

  104. Amanda L. Griffith and Donna S. Rothstein, “Can’t Get There from Here: The Decision to Apply to a Selective College,” Economics of Education Review 28 (2009): 623.

  105. Nicholas Hillman and Taylor Weichman, “Education Deserts: The Continued Significance of ‘Place’ in the Twenty-First Century,” American Council on Education/Center for Policy Research and Strategy, 2016, 3–4, 6, http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/Education-Deserts-The-Continued-Significance-of-Place-in-the-Twenty-First-Century.pdf.

  106. Griffith and Rothstein, “Can’t Get There from Here,” 627.

  107. Schmitt and Boushey, “The College Conundrum,” 3, 8, 9.

  108. Schmitt and Boushey, “The College Conundrum,” 5.

  109. Jillian Berman, “Here’s How Much Student-Loan Debt Has Exploded Over the Past Decade,” MarketWatch, October 27, 2015, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-average-student-loan-debt-grew-56-over-the-past-10-years-2015-10-27.

  110. Schmitt and Boushey, “The College Conundrum,” 4.

  111. Rework America, America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age (New York: W.W. Norton, 2015), 200.

  112. Renny Christopher, “A Carpenter’s Daughter,” in This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class, ed. C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995), 143.

  113. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: New Press, 2016), 73.

  114. Confidential interview, Washington, D.C., 1999.

  115. John Sumer, “Working It Out,” in This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class, ed. C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995), 304.

  116. Michèle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 20.

  117. Nancy LaPaglia, “Working-Class Women as Academics,” in This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class, ed. C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995), 180, 181.

  118. Stephen Garger, “Bronx Syndrome,” in This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class, ed. C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995), 46.

  119. Hephzibah Roskelly, “Telling Tales in School: A Redneck Daughter in the Academy,” in Working-Class Women in the Academy, ed. Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 293.

  120. Garger, “Bronx Syndrome,” 46.

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  121. Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2003), 238.

  122. Joan C. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 166–167.

  123. bell hooks, “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education,” in Working-Class Women in the Academy, ed. Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 102.

  124. Lareau, Unequal Childhoods, 2–3, 42, Table C4 on 282, Table C5 on 283, Table C6 on 284.

  125. Referring to Frederick W. Taylor, the “Father of Scientific Management.” For more information, see Jill Lepore, “Not So Fast,” New Yorker, October 12, 2009, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/12/not-so-fast.

  126. Laureau, Unequal Childhoods, 39, 62, 113.

  127. Laureau, Unequal Childhoods, 48, 58.

  128. “Return to Childhood 2008,” This American Life (Chicago Public Radio broadcast, March 7, 2008).

  129. Laureau, Unequal Childhoods, 251.

  130. Making Caring Common, “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions,” 2016, 5, http://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-mcc/files/20160120_mcc_ttt_report_interactive.pdf?m=1453303517.

  131. Lauren Rivera and András Tilcsik, “Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume,” hbr.org, December 21, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-backfire-on-your-resume.

  132. Laureau, Unequal Childhoods, 45, 79, 80, 81.

  133. Laureau, Unequal Childhoods, 45, 55–57, 76–77.

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  134. C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1951), 209–211.

  135. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2007).

  136. Reuel Schiller, Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 240–244.

  137. See “Poor People’s Campaign,” kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_poor_peoples_campaign.

  138. Julie Bettie, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2002), 173.

  139. Rich Morin, “Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT,” Pew Research Center, August 19, 2015, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/08/19/exploring-racial-bias-among-biracial-and-single-race-adults-the-iat/.

  140. Chris Mooney, “The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men,” Mother Jones, December 1, 2014, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/science-of-racism-prejudice.

  141. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan, “Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination,” American Economic Review 94, no. 4 (2004).

  142. Joan C. Williams, Su Li, Roberta Rincon, and Peter Finn, “Climate Control: Gender and Racial Bias in Engineering?” 2016, 18–19, http://worklifelaw.org/pubs/Climate-Control-Gender-And-Racial-Bias-In-Engineering.pdf. (The comparison is with white men because white women experience prove-it-again bias triggered by gender; women of color experience it based on both race and gender.)

  143. Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey, What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know (New York: New York University Press, 2014), 311–313 (see studies cited in endnotes to Chapter 2).

  144. Michèle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 73, citing Roel W. Meertiens and Thomas F. Pettigrew, “Is Subtle Prejudice Really Prejudice?” Public Opinion Quarterly 61 (1997): 54–71.

  145. Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), 59, 60, 63.

  146. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 59.

  147. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 1.

  148. Peter Holley, “KKK’s Official Newspaper Supports Donald Trump for President,” Washington Post, November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/?utm_term=.afd5f711ec41; Theodore
Schleifer, “Trump: Judge with Mexican Heritage Has an ‘Inherent Conflict of Interest,’” CNN.com, June 2, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/donald-trump-judge-mexican-heritage-conflict-of-interest/; Jeremy Diamond, “Donald Trump: Ban All Muslim Travel to U.S.,” CNN.com, December 8, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/; TIME Staff, “Here’s Donald Trump’s Presidential Announcement Speech,” TIME, June 16, 2015, http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/.

  149. Gary Langer, Gregory Holyk, Chad Kiewiet De Jonge, Julie Phelan, Geoff Feinberg, and Sofi Sinozich, “Huge Margin Among Working-Class Whites Lifts Trump to a Stunning Election Upset,” abcnews.com, November 9, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/huge-margin-working-class-whites-lifts-trump-stunning/story?id=43411948; Aaron Blake, “Who Likes President Obama and Voted for Donald Trump? Lots of People,” Washington Post, November 16, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/16/meet-the-pro-obama-donald-trump-voters-there-are-plenty-of-them/?utm_term=.bfdc0ed42b05.

  150. German Lopez, “Research Says There Are Ways to Reduce Racial Bias. Calling People Racist Isn’t One of Them,” vox.com, November 15, 2016, http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/15/13595508/racism-trump-research-study.

  151. David Broockman and Joshua Kalla, “Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing,” Science 352 (2016): 220–224.

  152. Dawn Michelle Baunach, “Decomposing Trends in Attitudes Toward Gay Marriage, 1988–2006,” Social Science Quarterly 92, no. 2 (2011): 346–363.

  153. Rework America, America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age (New York: W.W. Norton, 2015), 193.

  154. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, “Immigration and the Rural Workforce,” https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/in-the-news/immigration-and-the-rural-workforce/.

  155. Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 129.

  156. Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men, 89–90.

 

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