A Provocative Question

[Mark Kohut]

 i was reminded yesterday by David Kipen that Pynchon wrote of the inability of the student (New) Left to connect with the working class in the intro to SLOW LEARNER. 
And this reminds me that it is still identity politics to think and say 'white working class' as I and most are doing. Always respect Pynchon' s precision, I repeat to myself. 

New relevant books: Strangers in their Own Land ( excerpts around), White Trash and Hillbilly Elegy.

I learned from a polling strategist that since race is ascertainable from voting records, they report and the mainstream media simply uses "whites" and "blacks" ( along with Hispanics and Others (say) in their reductionist way, fostering the bad shit. 

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> On Nov 24, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>> Am 23.11.2016 um 20:48 schrieb kelber at mindspring.com:
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>> http://fortune.com/2016/11/11/trump-voters-lynn-nottage/
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> Very interesting, thank you.
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> I would like to learn more. Are there any other contemporary writers addressing the situation of the working class in the US today? The impact of the war on terror, the impact of globalisation?
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