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    <body><![CDATA[a book that pretends to be an academic account of class in the united states as well as a study of class within the american society. however the book is nothing more than conjecture and personal accounting more than it is research and study. there is more rhetoric in this book than in any cornell w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62083460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love bell hooks.  And I'm so glad she's such a prolific writer on so many topics, but &quot;Where We Stand&quot; just didn't live up to my expectations for it.  It didn't address class in the ways I had expected, nor do I feel that my thinking has been pushed forward very much.  The stories drawn ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43808399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned what I already knew. If people were not so greedy and wouldn't mind sharing the wealth, we would have far less homeless people in this country. But interestingly, our society is so media-saturated, that some of the homeless desire the same things as the wealthy: a bunch of stuff. The book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60315509">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great read by bell hooks.  I've been on a bit of a bender where class issues are concerned (did you know that I own three books called &quot;Class Matters&quot;?  Here's hoping for more creative titles in the future), and hooks' work has been the most personal and instructive that I've found...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73051303">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the firs (and so far only) book on class that i've read, and it was eye opening. i was a little annoyed by the religious parts of it. hooks seems to be trying to say that society is moving away from god (towards atheism), and therefore there is no longer any honor in poverty. imo, the honor ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42985927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love bell and her books. This one is no exception. A really good anthology of essays regarding class. I love that she is able to connect with the reader using personal accounts and reflections; she has a great ability to share personal experience in a powerful way. This wasn't my favorite bell hoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15116238">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I respect and agree with her fundamental point that the discussion of issues of class is muted at best, but it does not engage in thorough analysis. It's passionate, polemical writing, and I think, as a result, much is simplified and reduced for the sake of sticking to &quot;party lines,&quot; in a ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me aware of class and changed the way I thought about class in relation to other kinds of oppressions (race, gender, etc.).  Reading this book became a pivotal moment in the development of the way I see and make sense of the world.  I highly recommend it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting take on class from the Bell Hooks/Visionary Feminism prospective. I wouldn't see it's a definitive work on class, race and sexism - but it's worth reading if you are at all interested in how these elements are inter-related. But I would suggest other books for introducing fol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37473341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book because it helps you realize that class matters - and the American Dream is just that, a dream.  In reality social construction and class rules keep people from moving up in class - social constructions such as &quot;all you have to do is work hard.&quot;<br/><br/>bell does a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20057775">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rereading as research. Remembering why I love bell hooks. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ridiculously good.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was quite disappointed by this book. I had bought this during one of my mad sprees through the Barnes and Noble section on sociology, along with the NYT' Class Matters and Barbara Ehrenreich. I'd expected an insightful and personal take on class issues - and indeed the book started promisingly eno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28345418">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;At the end of the day black and white indigents often pool earnings, sit side by side, sharing the same bottle, breaking the same bread. At the end of the day they inhabit a world where race and class no longer mean very much&quot; (4).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely heavy and, after not very many chapters, I felt the class (and gender, and race...) situation she describes is utterly hopeless, but it's somewhat redemptive by the end, just by the way she frames her experiences.  She's very honest and relatable and I can't wait to read her other books, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31926723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually like her stories, but I was looking for more concrete examples and theory in her discussion about class.  One can easily understand her points if one can relate to her stories; however, if one cannot relate (or cannot handle this book's repetitive nature), her arguments are lost.]]></body>
    
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