GOVT094 CM - The American Class Divide

As America has made some progress bridging persistent gender and racial inequalities since the 1960s, the class divide widened. Today poor and working-class citizens of all races live in a much different world from the one that highly-educated Americans call home. This course sheds light on that world mostly by assigning ethnographic research on America’s poor and working-class communities, both rural and urban, white and black. This knowledge should help students bridge that divides, whether it’s becoming an effective teacher through Teach for America, understanding Trump’s popularity in the rustbelt, or finding new remedies to class-related problems.

Prerequisites: GOVT 020 CM

Offered: Every year

Credit: 1

Course Number: GOVT094 CM