How Media Warps Our Views on Class

It is important to recognize the ways that class is represented in the media and beyond. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the 2005 documentary “Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class” (based on the work of Pepi Leistyna and directed by Loretta Alper), which explores how class is represented in American television and media, as well as the intersections of class with race, gender, and sexuality, and how this analysis of how class is represented in the media influences our thinking and society, and what that means for social justice and collective liberation.

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