In When Did We All Become Middle Class?, Martin Nunlee discusses how a lack of class identity gives people a false sense of their relationship to power, which h

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Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about. The United States is becoming a nation of r

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The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and t