{"product_id":"outclassed-how-the-left-lost-the-working-class-and-how-to-win-them-back-9781250368966","title":"Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the class dynamics driving American politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In \u003ci\u003eOutclassed\u003c\/i\u003e, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the \"diploma divide\", while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege. With illuminating stories --from the Portuguese admiral who led that country's COVID response to the lawyer who led the ACLU's gay marriage response (and more)-- Williams demonstrates how working-class values reflect working-class lives. Then she explains how the far right connects culturally with the working-class, deftly manipulating racism and masculine anxieties to deflect attention from the ways far-right policies produce the economic conditions disadvantaging the working-class. Whether you are a concerned citizen committed to saving democracy or a politician or social justice warrior in need of messaging advice, \u003ci\u003e Outclassed\u003c\/i\u003e offers concrete guidance on how liberals can forge a multi-racial cross-class coalition capable of delivering on progressive goals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribed as having \"something approaching rock star status\" in her field by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJoan C. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning scholar of social inequality. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Working Class, \u003c\/i\u003e and has published on class dynamics in\u003ci\u003e The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic \u003c\/i\u003eand more. She is Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair (emerita) at University of California College of the Law San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276888637714,"sku":"9781250368966","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a73d193b-6fd6-46a3-8d30-96677444a8c1.jpg?v=1747144474","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/outclassed-how-the-left-lost-the-working-class-and-how-to-win-them-back-9781250368966","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}