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Can Working Class Culture be Knowledge?
Stefan Szczelkun, Routine Art Company, £8.95
THROUGH a discussion of aspects of working-class culture, this book challenges a basic tenet of classism: that working-class people lack intellect.
In terms of epistemology — the nature and scope, and “what counts” as knowledge — working-class culture is deemed to offer little. Certainly, in comparison to high culture. To this classism we should add the intersections of sexism, racism, ableism and so forth. But the problem is underscored: “Working class people internalise the myth of their own lack of intellect.”
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