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American Dream: Using Storytelling to Explore Social Class in the United States

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.120
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2018English
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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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