{"id":5816,"date":"2020-06-26T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2020-06-26T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:26:09","slug":"working-class-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2020\/06\/26\/working-class-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Working-class Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a paper that made me angry today (but not really today because I wrote this a while back).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It talked about working class people versus middle people and the differences in the struggles we face. I enjoyed the paper in the beginning. It talked about the issues low-income people face trying to succeed in America. It had terms to define what I was feeling in a more academic way and research to back up that these feelings were real. It felt pretty progressive until I reached the discussion part of the paper.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Something the paper mentioned as an \u201canswer\u201d to low-income people being disproportionately affected by systemic issues was \u201cto provide them with cultural capital.\u201d At some point, I know that this ideology was the \u201cstandard\u201d for progressives but I have always resented it a bit. I think it\u2019s demeaning to assume that all low-income people and POC (as this is usually applied to them as well) don\u2019t know anything about what it takes to make it. The \u201ctools\u201d we need to succeed. Yeah, we may not know anything about croquet or whatever, but those things don\u2019t really apply to the real world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The reality is that many (not ALL this is important) know the tools we need to have and are taught about them. However, that doesn\u2019t mean we know how to use them. All my life I\u2019ve been taught how to do things so I can survive but I never felt like I knew how to reproduce these things myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just providing cultural capital to marginalized societies is not as productive as people think. I don\u2019t know the answer specifically but I do know that that isn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a paper that made me angry today (but not really today because I wrote this a while back).\u00a0 It talked about working class people versus middle people and the differences in the struggles we face. I enjoyed the paper in the beginning. It talked about the issues low-income people face trying to succeed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2020\/06\/26\/working-class-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working-class Problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-a","category-py178","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-1vO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}