The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right with David Roediger and Nan Enstad

'The slogan, “save the middle class,” has become ubiquitous within political circles, despite the fact that it misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths that the US is a providentially middle class nation. In these discussions the middle class is implicitly white and presented—usually by liberal commentators—as unheard amidst concerns for racial justice and for the poor. In this launch for David Roediger’s The Sinking Middle Class, he is joined by Nan Enstad for a discussion how the image of the United States as a middle class nation corresponds to neither contemporary nor historical reality.'