Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It

by Karen Pittelman and Resource Generation with illustrations by Molly Hein.

Classified is a guide for people with class privilege who are tired of cover-ups, who are ready to dig through the buried files and figure out how their privilege really works. Complete with comics, exercises and personal stories, Classified gives its readers the tools they need to stop hiding their privilege and instead put it to work.

Review here (caution contains obscenities) by Missy Proctor, Child of Privilege in Wealth Bondage, Dallas Division.  I will tell you this much, having spent plenty of time with wealthy heirs of the East Coast liberal-guilt variety and also with the splendiforous self-aggrandizing Dallas sort - America has a long way to go before it can boast an aristocracy worthy of the name. 

Comments

[Holden]

I don't meet a lot of wealthy heirs, but I'd like to see a book like this for people who are privileged in a broader sense - who have talents and brains worth millions or billions, whether or not they've cashed in yet. Between the scandals and the unreflective pursuit of profit, I think our business sector demonstrates that we haven't learned to use those kinds of gifts well either.

[Phil]

Meritocracy breeds its own arrogance. How could we better engage your peers, the young Wall St rising stars, Holden?

[Albert]

Social change? Gawd, you mean things can get worse?

[Phil]

Social change, climate change, chump change. We work with what we have, I guess.