A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison
In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
growing inequality; perpetuated the racial wealth-gap;
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
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Survival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define as my people?
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
offloaded on to others whose experiences are less visible or less privileged.
Lis Hubert • Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design
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The rich of the city wanted to believe that the poor made them unsafe, not the other way around.
Eula Biss • Having and Being Had
Why, goddamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them -- all human motives?
Ralph Ellison • Invisible Man
W. E. B. Du Bois taught us this, and we teach it to our students. Whiteness was offered as a promise. Precarity makes it less sturdy. There are White people who work hard all of their lives and Whiteness gives them little materially. On the other hand, there are White people who come from powerful edifices, who can point to paintings on Vanderbilt’
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.