Blue-Collar Cosmopolitanism
Intellectualism and cosmopolitanism aren\u2019t things typically associated with working-class people and communities. But James Barrett has investigated, and unearthed, highly literate and often quite radical working-class cultures, cultures in which people read widely, engaged in group discussions, and in some cases traveled a great deal.\nJames Barrett, History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History Duke University Press, 2017\n\xa0\nThe post Blue-Collar Cosmopolitanism appeared first on KPFA.