Studs Terkel’s collections of oral history such as Working and Race are considered classics in American storytelling. (Image courtesy of Dominican University on flickr. License CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Christine Walley
MIT Course Number
21A.120
As Taught In
Spring 2018
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points along the U.S. social spectrum. It considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels, and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life and how it intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and gender.
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