“Class in America”

In “Class in America” by Gregory Mantsios starts off emphasizing that most people in the United States do not like to speak about class even though we see the obvious or evident barriers. He feels as though we need to speak on more important things like class privileges, class oppression etc. I agree with his point about having more open discussions about this because it allows us to understand our differences. We can talk about these institutions and how they were built to oppress. We could work on reinventing things so that we could focus on supporting everyone as a whole and not in superior to inferior sections. Later on he uses examples, myths, and statistics to support his idea that class whether that be economic or racially, has to be something that Americans are more aware of. He included the correlation between class and education attainment, power and oppression, American Life-styles and the economic spectrum.