Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don’t know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That’s because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky’s-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans–of any race–can afford to pay.

Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don’t know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That’s because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky’s-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans–of any race–can afford to pay.

– Maureen Corrigan –

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

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