• 沈没的中产阶级
  • The Sinking Middle Class
  • 作者:David Roediger
  • 出版社代理人:OR Books(美国)
  • 出版时间:2020年10月
  • 页数:264页
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  • 版权联系人:yayu@peonyliteraryagency.com
内容介绍

本书作者在《沈没的中产阶级》一書中,驳斥了美国是中产阶级国家的概念,同时带领读者追溯「中产阶级」的称号如何成为迎合选票的议题。

這是一本介於关於中产阶级的政治用途丶藉口丶问题和悲哀等等章节之间的政治语言的引言,也是白人劳工阶级的後记。

正如作者所说的:「每篇章节短到可以在喝几杯咖啡的时间里享用完毕。」


关於作者

David R. Roediger 在 University of Kansas教授美国研究。他的着作包括有: 《Seizing Freedom》丶《The Wages of Whiteness》丶《How Race Survived U.S. History》和《Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness》等书。他与Elizabeth Esch合着的《差异的产生》(Production of Difference)最近获得「国际劳工历史协会图书奖」(International Labor History Association Book Prize). 他曾是「美国研究协会」(American Studies Association)和「劳工阶级研究协会」((Working-Class Studies Association)的会长。他也是芝加哥超现实主义者组织(Chicago Surrealist Group)的长期成员,他的研究专注於解决不公平的社会现象问题,像是从「联合农场工人」(the United Farm Workers)抵制葡萄到「黑人的命也是命」(Black Lives Matter)等等社会运动议题。


书评

“As the nation burns and the future appears uncertain, David Roediger delivers another incisive, timely, clear-eyed analysis of class and race in America. His point is clear: another world won’t be built by pollsters or slick election strategies aimed at saving the middle class. We have to grow a movement. ” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

 

“A consistently pathbreaking historian.”

—Monthly Review

 

“No contemporary intellectual has better illuminated the interwoven social histories and conceptual dimensions of race and class domination.”

—Nikhil Singh

 

“Brilliant and insightful... Explores the ways in which appeals to save the middle class in electoral politics harm the very constituencies they purport to help.”

—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

 

媒体报导

“Why Are Democrats and Republicans Obsessed with the ‘Middle Class’?” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger interviewed on Going Underground(10/30/2020)

 

 “A historian I’ve always admired” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS by David R. Roediger recommended by Rick Perlstein in the Boston Globe (10/12/2020)

 

 THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger interviewed on Heartland Labor Forum (10/9/2020)

 

 “A devastating indictment of the cynicism of American politics” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS reviewed by the Battleground (10/9/2020)

 

 “The Increasingly Impossible Middle Class” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger writes for Against the Current (10/2/2020)

 

 “Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS excerpt published on Lit Hub (9/28/2020)

 

 “Everybody on the left should put [The Sinking Middle Class] on their to-read list. It doesn’t come much better-written or intelligent.” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS reviewed by CounterPunch (9/25/2020)

 

“America isn’t really a middle-class nation, but Clinton to Obama, all relied on the myth” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS excerpt published in ThePrint (9/8/2020)

 

 “Each election year, politicians make endless appeals for the votes of the middle class. But who, and what, is the middle class?” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David Roediger interviewed on Against the Grain (9/8/2020)

 

“Political exploitation of ‘middle class’ examined in new book” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger interviewed for KU Today (8/31/2020)

 

 “Why We Campaign to ‘Save the Middle Class’ and Shouldn’t” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger writes for New Politics (8/18/2020)

 

 “Points to the vacuity of our central premises regarding what it means to be American and, presumably, Middle Class” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS reviewed by CounterPunch (8/7/2020)