Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as "white middle-class goodness," an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona…
"This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to su…
"Suitably Modern traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new sociocultural space in one of the world's "least developed countries." Since…
Coached for the classroom -- Inconsistent curriculum -- Seeking assistance -- Seeking accommodations -- Seeking attention -- Responses and ramifications -- Alternative explanations "Class in the Classroom reveals that the middle-class advantage in school is, at least in part, a…
In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States - and around the globe - is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring…
Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain unexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recently. Author Anna Bull contri…
Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this text analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four 'articulations' or associations be…
