{"product_id":"color-of-class-poor-whites-and-the-paradox-of-privilege-paperback","title":"Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKirby Moss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even though we lived a few blocks away in our neighborhood or sat a seat or two away in elementary school, a vast chasm of class and racial difference separated us from them.\"--From the Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while, at the same time, surrounded by the glowing assumption of racial privilege? Kirby Moss, an African American anthropologist and journalist, goes back to his hometown in the Midwest to examine ironies of social class in the lives of poor whites. He purposely moves beyond the most stereotypical image of white poverty in the U.S.--rural Appalachian culture--to illustrate how poor whites carve out their existence within more complex cultural and social meanings of whiteness. Moss interacts with people from a variety of backgrounds over the course of his fieldwork, ranging from high school students to housewives. His research simultaneously reveals fundamental fault lines of American culture and the limits of prevailing conceptions of social order and establishes a basis for reconceptualizing the categories of color and class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately Moss seeks to write an ethnography not only of whiteness but of blackness as well. For in struggling with the elusive question of class difference in U.S. society, Moss finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirby Moss lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782310199584,"sku":"9780812218510","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7d7a63ef87423052074fae8ad6cbfc8d.webp?v=1780567705","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/color-of-class-poor-whites-and-the-paradox-of-privilege-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}