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This book is thinking about class oppression with a raw power and clarity I’ve not seen before.
Written as a working class intellectual who found she had no choice but to inhabit a middle-class world that refused to allow her to do what she wanted to. At all costs it didn’t want her to be a ‘working class’ intellectual. She manages to convey the intense pressure, raw pain and rage that this causes. How it can eraze people. As an intellectual there is no going back to the working class community ...more
Written as a working class intellectual who found she had no choice but to inhabit a middle-class world that refused to allow her to do what she wanted to. At all costs it didn’t want her to be a ‘working class’ intellectual. She manages to convey the intense pressure, raw pain and rage that this causes. How it can eraze people. As an intellectual there is no going back to the working class community ...more
