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Where We Stand: Class Matters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,953 ratings — published 2000
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,324,622 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classism)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,639 ratings — published 2020
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classism)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,314 ratings — published 2016
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,131 ratings — published 1981
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classism)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,261 ratings — published 2016
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,980,332 ratings — published 1925
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classism)
avg rating 4.46 — 825,017 ratings — published 2022
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 64,229 ratings — published 2020
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 39,668 ratings — published 1968
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,435 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.14 — 491,695 ratings — published 2022
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,627,729 ratings — published 1967
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,676,898 ratings — published 2018
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,834 ratings — published 2018
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 3.91 — 552,073 ratings — published 2013
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,795 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,919 ratings — published 2001
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,867,372 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,015,982 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,952,527 ratings — published 1960
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,891,756 ratings — published 2018
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,764,487 ratings — published 2010
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,903,566 ratings — published 2018
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classism)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,262 ratings — published 2019
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 201,410 ratings — published 1848
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,014 ratings — published 1991
Queerly Classed: Gay Men & Lesbians Write About Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classism)
avg rating 4.07 — 43 ratings — published 1997
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classism)
avg rating 3.80 — 880,172 ratings — published 1861
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classism)
avg rating 3.68 — 238,769 ratings — published 1984
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,865,111 ratings — published 1813
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,130,384 ratings — published 2025
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 142,812 ratings — published 2023
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 858,705 ratings — published 2024
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 10,907 ratings — published 2011
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 3,614,464 ratings — published 2022
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 138,298 ratings — published 2023
Swim Team (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 10,838 ratings — published 2022
The Paris Apartment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 730,067 ratings — published 2022
The Promise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 50,415 ratings — published 2021
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,128 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.16 — 502,161 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,493 ratings — published 2019
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,096 ratings — published 1951
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 264,996 ratings — published 2014
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
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avg rating 3.84 — 229,408 ratings — published 2015
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 878,754 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,926,805 ratings — published 1818
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,004,475 ratings — published 2006
With a Closed Fist: Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighborhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 3.91 — 111 ratings — published 2011
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift.
We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be.
We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.”
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We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be.
We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.”
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“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the human context.”
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