Death of a Yuppie Dream: SWPL & PMC

[Fiona Shnapple]

Stuff the Professional Managerial Class Likes: "Distinction" for an
Egalitarian Elite
Daniel Rosenblatt

From: Anthropological Quarterly
Volume 86, Number 2, Spring 2013
pp. 589-623 | 10.1353/anq.2013.0019

Abstract:

Despite what its name might suggest, the satirical website "Stuff
White People Like" is an insightful commentary on the values and
tastes of liberal members of the American "professional-managerial
class." Besides calling attention to the "racing" of class, the site
presents a portrait of these people that allows us to read the way
structurally inherent anxieties around class reproduction and a
historically conditioned quest for authenticity and individuality are
sedimented in their everyday behavior and consciousness. The
popularity of the site in 2008 reflected public interest in the
intersection of race, class, and culture in the context of Barak
Obama's presidential campaign.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/ehrenreich_death_of_a_yuppie_dream90.pdf
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