Surname: 1 Effects of Classism on Economy Annotated Bibliography Cuthrell, K, C Ledford and J Strapleton . Examining the Culture of Poverty:...

Effects of Classism on Economy Annotated Bibliography

Cuthrell, K, C Ledford and J Strapleton . Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising Practices. Preventing School Failure. 2010.

In the article, the culture related to poverty is explored, and measures are identified for the best-serving children who live in poverty. The authors note that students who have limited financial resources but have a firm physical, emotional and spiritual support, the poverty burden is minimized. They advise that teachers need to play a significant function in offering physical, spiritual and emotional support. The article identifies some effects of poverty like low self-esteem, low popularity, and conflicting peer relationships. They encourage teachers to challenge this myth and dig deeper to comprehend poverty and class. They assert that blaming poverty is a cop out and irrelevant in helping students in the poor class to rise and better their economic status.

Furthermore, the article identifies six major strategies that can help families and students living in poverty. In page 106, the article argues that effective teachers and teaching strategies get results rather than programs. Most importantly, the article concludes that a person can make a lifetime difference in a child’s life by believing in them and offering a definite positive relationship. The book also draws from the deficit theory from which some teachers defined their students on their weaknesses rather than strengths. The book is a rich source for the current paper since it approaches classism from different perspectives. The source will be used to discuss poverty as one of the economic effects of classism and citing measures to eradicate poverty through education. The concluding remarks on this work will inform the current paper’s suggestions of eliminating economic deprivations of low income people due to classism in the society.

Edelman, P. "So rich, so poor: Why the wealthiest nation in the world is losing the battle against poverty." The New Press (2012): 162.

This is a book that presents a comprehensive overview of diverse structural situations that leads to poverty in the United States. Edelman first utilizes facts and figures to show the state of the American national economy and its influence on poverty from the late 1960s to 2010. The bulk of the book focuses on the strategies the state and the federal government has played to bring the public policy to bear on the intractable issue of poverty. The article suggest that people from diverse classes can collaborate to enable compassion instead of fear anger and resentment to determine measures for social change. The article borrows from the wealth equality statistics and argues that the richest one percent currently has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

Most important, the book’s information about housing policy, education policy and criminal justice policy undertaken by the nation over five decades. The book observes that incorporating issues of classism to our existing list of issue leads to discomfort since we worry what would happen in case we open Pandora’s Box. The book will be used to provide information on how economic policies targeting the lower income classes have performed in the fight against poverty. I lean toward the economic statistics like surveys on income distribution and poverty trends over time that will be helpful in giving the current paper logic appeal.

Greenleaf, A T, M J Ratts and S Y Song. "Rediscovering Classism The Humanist Vision for Economic Justice." Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2016).

The journal introduces more dimensions of poverty like living in an unsafe location, being socially isolated as well as residing in a squalid house. The authors capture the aspects of poverty using absolute income poverty measure. They further make arguments using a broader poverty measure due to classicism in the society. The journal further talks about the insufficiencies of research on classicism. Greenleaf, Ratts and Song srgue that the major limitation of the text on classism is that most people overlook the roots of class opression while also failing to perceive class opression as classism. They further argue that classism is mostly conceptually ill-defined as it too often focuses mainly on the poor people and individuals of color. Consequetly, the journal seeks to map out a multilevel analysis of class opppression to help in addressing classism as a social system of oppression.

The authors believe classism to be conceptually underdeveloped in relation to the concepts of sexism and racism. The article gives a succinct definition of classism as “systematic oppression of one group by another based on economic distinctions or based on one’s position within the system of production and distribution. The article will be utilized in the current research to discuss how it feels like to be poor in an affluent society. I would select this work particularly because it helps to understand the broad picture of classism.

Newman, K S and R O'Brien . Taxing the poor: Doing damage to the truly disadvantaged. Berkley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, 2011.

The book sheds more light on tax policies in the United States: specifically in the American West and South which have a greater impact on the poor. In some of the states, the poor class pays both income tax and regressive sale taxes which extend to even food for home consumption. The book covers the history of progressive tax policies that escalated the situations of the poor. Further, the book argues that rather than accepting myths that harm low-income students, there is need to eliminate the system wide inequalities which stand in their way.

The authors argue how the people in the lower economic class are prone to obesity, early mortality, crime and high school dropout due to being neglected by policy makers. The book will be an ideal source of statistics of classism to back arguments on the extent of the impact classicism.

Work cited

Cuthrell, K, C Ledford and J Strapleton . Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising Practices. Preventing School Failure. 2010.

Edelman, P. "So rich, so poor: Why the wealthiest nation in the world is losing the battle against poverty." The New Press (2012): 162.

Greenleaf, A T, M J Ratts and S Y Song. "Rediscovering Classism The Humanist Vision for Economic Justice." Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2016).

Newman, K S and R O'Brien . Taxing the poor: Doing damage to the truly disadvantaged. Berkley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, 2011.