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Article: Teaching an interdisciplinary course on the American Upper Class.(Report)
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- Radical Teacher
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- September 22, 2009
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I teach a course titled the American Upper Class. I first taught the course in the early 1980s after having spent the previous few years writing about the extent to which Jews were and were not allowed into the Protestant Establishment. Drawing especially on the work of E. Digby Baltzell, an upper class sociologist from the Main Line of Philadelphia, and the work of C. Wright Mills, a radical sociologist from Texas whose father sold insurance, I had written a series of articles, and also coauthored a book titled Jews in the Protestant Establishment. (1) In the process of studying upper class Protestants, and the ways they had and had not allowed Jews into their midst, I ...