{"id":322,"date":"2017-03-05T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=322"},"modified":"2017-03-05T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:06:26","slug":"list-of-grievances-against-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/list-of-grievances-against-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Grievances Against Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m reading this book, I&#8217;m finding\u00a0Barbara&#8217;s attitude toward the working class increasingly troubling.\u00a0I want to talk about this more in class, and so\u00a0here are\u00a0some of the instances that have bothered me most. (I&#8217;ll add to this list as we read on.)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;in the American workplace, the only thing people have to call their own is the tumors they are nourishing and the spare moments they devote to feeding them&#8221; (31).\n<ul>\n<li>I can&#8217;t even really summarize my thoughts on this one but she writes as if these people don&#8217;t have families or lives of their own to value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the Overseas park is a nest of crime and crack, and I am hoping at least for some vibrant multicultural street life&#8221; (39).\n<ul>\n<li>I feel like this quote undersells that fact her neighbors are on drugs and committing crimes because of a complete lack of opportunity in their lives. It&#8217;s insulting how she sees people of color\u00a0and jumps to stereotypes, hoping\u00a0for little bit of &#8220;vibrant multicultural street life&#8221; to keep her middle-class\u00a0self entertained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m reading this book, I&#8217;m finding\u00a0Barbara&#8217;s attitude toward the working class increasingly troubling.\u00a0I want to talk about this more in class, and so\u00a0here are\u00a0some of the instances that have bothered me most. (I&#8217;ll add to this list as we read on.) &#8220;in the American workplace, the only thing people have to call their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}