Volume 23, Number 3 · March 4, 1976
Cutting Classes
By Andrew Hacker
The Political Economy of Social Class
by Charles H. Anderson
Prentice-Hall, 340 pp., $10.95
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
edited by Nathan Glazer, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan
Harvard University Press, 531 pp., $15.00
Ethnicity in the United States
by Andrew Greeley
Wiley, 347 pp., $14.95
Two classes were enough for Marx. 'Lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, patrician and plebeian.' We now make finer distinctions, like upper middle versus lower middle. Shoe salesmen must not be confused with brain surgeons. We also distinguish more finely among oppressions. Jewish lesbians form a special caucus, believing that unique problems separate them from their gentile sisters. But to admit you belong to a class means admitting you share the same boat with others. Most Americans would rather swim.
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