JP Forum: "Crossing the Class Divide"
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 7:00pm
Location
First Church Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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Crossing the Class Divide: A Cross-over Author's Story
Barb Jensen knows what it’s like to be a working-class kid disaffected from school because she was one. As a psychologist she has instilled pride and purpose in such kids. Barb also knows the soul-deadening downsides of being a middle-class professional, because she grew up to become one. As a professor and as a counselor, she has helped countless “cross-overs” and class-privileged people to keep their spirits alive.
As she spotlights classism in her new book Reading Classes, Barb puts our society’s pervasive disrespect for working-class culture into the context of the spiraling crisis of economic inequality. She is a rising national leader of the Working-Class Studies Association, and from her huge network she draws insights from labor studies, left economics, and working-class literature.
Barb's book will be available for purchase at the JP Forum. You can also buy it online from Class Action's store.
For more info, visit www.jamaicaplainforum.org.
Barb Jensen knows what it’s like to be a working-class kid disaffected from school because she was one. As a psychologist she has instilled pride and purpose in such kids. Barb also knows the soul-deadening downsides of being a middle-class professional, because she grew up to become one. As a professor and as a counselor, she has helped countless “cross-overs” and class-privileged people to keep their spirits alive.
As she spotlights classism in her new book Reading Classes, Barb puts our society’s pervasive disrespect for working-class culture into the context of the spiraling crisis of economic inequality. She is a rising national leader of the Working-Class Studies Association, and from her huge network she draws insights from labor studies, left economics, and working-class literature.
Barb's book will be available for purchase at the JP Forum. You can also buy it online from Class Action's store.
For more info, visit www.jamaicaplainforum.org.
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