Poor or rich? The material livelihoods define a person’s social status more than their skin color or sexual orientation – writes the literary scholar Walter Benn Michaels and makes few friends with it.
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At the American elite universities (in the picture the Widener Library of Harvard University) there are students from various ethnic backgrounds. Most of them come from wealthy families.
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The American literary scholar Walter Benn Michaels brings something into the discussion about identity politics that is rarely found in the debate, which is usually conducted with great doggedness and self-righteousness: a wink and a pinch of self-irony.
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