Book Launch: Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation by Asking Are You a Worker or Are You White?
Sun, Nov 03
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Former Washington Post foreign correspondent Jon Jeter will be at Sankofa for his upcoming book launch!


Time & Location
Nov 03, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the Book
No matter who wins the White House in November, the loser is clear: the American worker.
Wage-earners in the U.S. have been taking it on the chin since Ronald Reagan began dismantling the liberal, interracial coalition that produced fatter and fatter paychecks for employees in the postwar era.
In defining the central problem as “race” rather than “class,” the Reagan revolution managed to pit workers against each other, giving employers carte blanche to nickel and dime their employees to death. Bill Clinton doubled down on Reagan's appeals to tribalism.
Equal parts literature and scholarship, Jon Jeter’s book– Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation by Asking Are You a Worker or Are You White?–is a “bracing and thought-provoking study,” writes Kirkus Review.
A former Washington Post foreign correspondent, Jeter deploys “remarkable” “narrative skill” (Kirkus) to not only explain the growing inequality at the heart…