The making of the slave class

The making of the slave class

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Main Author: Carrier, Jerry, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Pub., c2010.
Subjects:
Social classes > United States.
Social stratification > United States.
Poor > United States.
United States > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The not so free market
  • The American class system
  • The Okies, a case study
  • Class traits
  • One nation under God
  • The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings
  • Christianity and predestination comes to America
  • The early history
  • The revivalist movement
  • The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes
  • Other American working-class Christian movements
  • The ghetto complex
  • Christianity vs. science and modernism
  • Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict
  • The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists
  • Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture
  • The first sexual revolution
  • Prohibition
  • War on the working class: the war on drugs
  • The Christian conservatives take control of American politics
  • More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates
  • Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement
  • Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary
  • Father knows best, Christianity vs. women
  • Class and the gay movement
  • Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam
  • Conclusions about class and Christianity
  • Class and the military
  • Health and the working class
  • The geography of class
  • Income distribution
  • American poverty
  • The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility
  • Anomie: the price of upward mobility
  • Education, intelligence and middle-class bias
  • The graying of working-class America
  • Class and race
  • Gentrification
  • Self-cleaning ovens
  • A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit
  • The credit union movement
  • A sad story
  • Nonprofits and the community economic development movement
  • More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification
  • Transportation and class
  • In the hood
  • Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets
  • Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis
  • Greed, stupidity and arrogance
  • Conclusion: The Americans slave class.

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