ENVS 2200 Chapter Notes -White Supremacy, Barely Breaking Even, Thorncliffe Park
8 May 2014
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Parker"s views are that novels written around the time after the world war two, identified in their content democratic socialism and addressed the demand created by the housing shortages for the war workers and veterans. This set the scene of the many ways lower middle-class and especially colored people were overlooked. Further ways of this marginalization is seen as working- class relies on the state for affordable accommodation and is subject to its whims while upper middle-class is not. Gans talks about how in london, white working class thought they were special who other people should serve and protect and certain jobs and residential locations were beneath this white supremacy. When he tried to bring middle- class in contact with west-enders (the upper white class) they refused and hardly participated because of their fear of inferiority and deficiency of the lower middle class society.
