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In an era of increasing conservatism and a heightened attack on working people and women, Joanna Kadi’s clear prose strikes out powerfully against the dominance of the upper class in all spheres of life. Kadi provides us with a personal and analytical look at how oppression by class intersects with oppressions by race, gender, and sexuality. Examining the elite’s supposed hegemony over intellectual work, Thinking Class rejects the idea that the working class is the non-thinking class, and affirms the culture that springs up, beautiful and honest, from this society’s true base.

In language both lyrical and sardonic, Kadi addresses the class prejudice of gay and lesbian communities, as well as the supposed homophobia of the working class, and attacks the modern-day trend that grants rubber-stamp approval to the wholesale cooptation of peoples’ religions and other cultural expression by the American consumption machine. Moving easily between the analytical and the personal, Kadi evokes images from her childhood that expose the horror of child abuse. She also offers recollections of a musically talented aunt how is Kadi’s first model of a cultural worker.

This working-class scholar examines subjects ranging from country music to cultural appropriation, from working-class ideals to Disney icons, in a forthright and poetic rendering that is sure to appeal to all those interested in American culture, feminism, and ethnic studies.