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Prof. Carlos Figueroa (Politics) has published article in the journal FAIR OBSERVER titled: "Working-Class America Needs Real Change, Not Slogans"Contributed by Kenesha Chatman on 11/02/20 Prof. Carlos Figueroa (Politics) has published article in the journal FAIR OBSERVER titled: "Working-Class America Needs Real Change, Not Slogans" "Both Trump and Biden are operating within a symbolic/performative political frame that supposedly addresses the real needs of the American working people. Yet the competing slogans and the performative politics we have witnessed over the past few months have done more to perpetuate the bitter partisanship keeping us “trampling on each other for our scraps of bread,” as E.L. Doctorow pointed out in 1992. So, what we instead need is a transformative (redistributive) politics that directly answers the complex quotidian concerns of the majority working-class people across race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and civic or legal status now and after the election." Please read article here:
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