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To The Contrary
Women Thought Leaders: Joan Williams
Season 26
Episode 2638
In our continuing series of interviews with Women Thought Leaders, we speak with Joan Williams, author of "What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class." She discusses the way the media, politicians, and the upper class hav misunderstood America's working class and how it affected the election of Donald Trump. She discusses issues such as white privilege & class-based discrimination.
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