Hmm, does that definition read as though one must also be white to be working class? Or are we not getting the Brookings Institution's entire definition with that quote? Working class includes whites who... but it also includes Polynesians who..., black Haitian immigrants who..., Pakistanis who... have less than a four year degree?
Well I'm not willing to accept that definition anyway. The term has too many usages over time to just lay that one out as the official definition.
A funny consequence, too, is that someone might be working in one job and be working class one day, but then the next day they collect their 4 year diploma, stay in the same job, have the same values, earn the same wages, have the same aspirations, live in the same apartment, spend Thanksgiving with the same family, get around town in the same manner, have the same vacation plans, listen to the same music, belong to the same quilting circle, go to the same place of worship, shop at the grocery, etcetera, yet **POOF** they are transported out of the working class the moment they turn that tassel on the mortarboard.
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