This blog is no longer devoted exclusively to discussion of class bias in higher education although it is pervasive. But then, again, it is pervasive everywhere in the US. I've run out of gas on that. Not only that, I've lost some of my rile about my own law school. So I'm just winging it.
Monday, July 21, 2008
More on White People
No doubt most people reading this will be familiar with the Stuff White People Like blog by Christian Lander. It's quite funny and now that the books is out it is getting more national press in the form of reviews. If you've read the blog you know it was not really about white people but, according to the author, "The Stuff is more about class than race." But, it is not just class, it is about "law professors." Actually, no, he did not say that. According to the L.A. times reviewer, "It's monied Caucasian liberals saturated with irony and bedecked in ostentatious authenticity and hard-earned nonchalance. It's not about wealth per se because, as Lander puts it "Wealth was always taken care of in this group of people"
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