Class in Culture

A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies sociology English literary theory and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear penetrating writers. -Peter McLaren UCLA author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race stem-cell research and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology consumption globalization and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world.