Created Equal: Reading and Writing About Class in America Book

1. Superiors and Inferiors (I): Coping with Higher-Ups. Cleaning Up After the Masters, John Langston Gwaltney.
The Maid and the Missus, Robert Coles and Jane Hallowell Coles.
Airline Stewardess, Studs Terkel.
The Skirt Standard, Anna Quindlen.
My House, David Namet.
A Brother's Murder, Brent Staples.
Turning Out the Privileged, Lorene Cary.

2. Toward a Definition of Class. A Touchy Subject, Paul Fussell.
Toward a Definition of Class, Mortimer Levitt.
Dirtbags, Burnouts, Metalheads, and Thrashers, Donna Gaines.

3. Discoveries: Working Class, Underclass, Plutocrats. The Discovery of the Working Class, Barbara Ehrenreich.
The Emergence of the Underclass as a Public Issue, Michael Katz.
A Bird's Eye View of American Plutographics, Kevin Phillips.

4. Making it Big: American Visions of Riches. The American Idea of Success, Richard M. Huber.
Where To Get Rich, Russell Conwell.
Harold Albert, the Richest Man in the World, and Louie, his Wife, Tony Parker.

5. Equality and Mobility: On Sacred Ground. More Equal Than in Any Other Country, Alexis de Tocqueville.
A Sociologist Looks At An American Community, The Editors of Life.
Ups and Downs: Three Middletown Families, Howard M. Bahr.
Class Struggle in Hollywood, Benjamin DeMott.
TV and All the Right Commodities, Mark Crispin Miller.

6. Lives of the Elites. The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills.
Money and Class in America, Lewis Lapham.
Old Money, The Mythology of America's Upper Class, Nelson Aldrich.

7. The Great Equalizer: School. `I Should Never Have Quit School', BenjaminDeMott.
Struggle and Achievements of America's Underprepared, Mike Rose.
Savage Inequalities of Public Education, Jonathan Kozol.

8. Superiors and Inferiors (II): The Problem of Guilt. Protestant, Garrison Keillor.
Free Trade, Thomas Geoghegan.
The Hidden Injuries of Class, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb.
On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst, Marianna De Marco Torgovnick.
The Achievement of Desire, Richard Rodriguez.
Forum on the Responsibility of Intellectuals, Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Bell Hooks, Glenn Loury, Eugene Rivers and Cornel West.

9. Class Consequences: Five Public Issues. The Affluent Draft Resister, William G. Smith.
The Futile War on Drugs, Elliott Currie.
The Ethics of Limits and the Abortion Debate, Christopher Lasch.
Censoring Studs, Ellen Goodman.
Death of a Princess, Charles Krauthammer.

10. Tomorrow's Class Politics. The Case for Class-Mixing, Mickey Kaus.
Racism's Secret Bonding, Derrick Bell.
The Nurturing of Rights, James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns.

11. Class Textures (I): Adventure, Superstition, Enigma. Sorghum, Bobbie Ann Mason.
The Jinx, Charles Dickinson.
The Water-Faucet Vision, Gish Jen.
The Superintendent, John Cheever.

12. Class Textures (II): Varieties of Human Love. I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen.
Chopin in Winter, Stuart Dybek.
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros.
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story, Russell Banks.