The making of the slave class / Jerry Carrier.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Carrier, Jerry, 1948-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 241 p.

Table of Contents

• The not so free market
• The American class system
• The Okies, a case study
• Class traits
• One nation under God
• The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings
• Christianity and predestination comes to America
• The early history
• The revivalist movement
• The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes
• Other American working-class Christian movements
• The ghetto complex
• Christianity vs. science and modernism
• Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict
• The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists
• Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture
• The first sexual revolution
• Prohibition
• War on the working class: the war on drugs
• The Christian conservatives take control of American politics
• More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates
• Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement
• Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary
• Father knows best, Christianity vs. women
• Class and the gay movement
• Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam
• Conclusions about class and Christianity
• Class and the military
• Health and the working class
• The geography of class
• Income distribution
• American poverty
• The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility
• Anomie: the price of upward mobility
• Education, intelligence and middle-class bias
• The graying of working-class America
• Class and race
• Gentrification
• Self-cleaning ovens
• A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit
• The credit union movement
• A sad story
• Nonprofits and the community economic development movement
• More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification
• Transportation and class
• In the hood
• Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets
• Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis
• Greed, stupidity and arrogance
• Conclusion: The Americans slave class.