7/4/2023 0 Comments James w loewenGregory Mantsios says, “Such eferences appear to be acceptable precisely because they mute class differences,” about how talking about the middle class nowhere near equivalent to talking about social stratification. Of the books two included the middle class saying that America is all middle class and everyone even people of other classes have middle class values, which in Loewen’s opinion is wrong. The history books that Loewen examined showed that no one wants to talk about the lower classes because nowhere in these books are other classes mentioned. James Loewen examined twelve history books to compare what was written and of those twelve six had no trace of social class or structure mentioned anywhere including the index. The authors of these American history books are bringing to light labor history, not showing that multinational companies are shipping their factories overseas limiting the work in the United States. Later in the essay Loewen begins to discuss how high school history textbooks leave out many important parts of history, which could change the way the class system is seen. Loewen describes how he asked college freshman “why people are poor” and “why their families are well off? shockingly most of the students answered that it is the peoples fault for not being successful, not taking into account that opportunity for people in the lower class are few and far between.
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