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Sep 23, 2001 · People Like Us: Social Class in America: Directed by Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker. A sprawling look at the class system in the United States, ranging from WASP elegance to trailer-park desperation, with lots of other stuff in between.
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- Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker
- 2001-09-23
Sep 23, 2001 · People Like Us looks at how class really works in America, examining how it affects our understanding of race and gender, investigating the exclusion of class from the national debate, and probing the ways in which class differences shape daily life.
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People Like Us: Social Class in America. 2h 4m. It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class?
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A documentary exploring issues of social class in America, divided into four parts, each containing one or more stories of Americans experiencing and observing class divisiveness. Additional commentary is provided throughout the film by authors and social critics, including David Patrick Columbia, R. Curtis Hay, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joe Queenan, Dan...
NETWORK:PBSDATE:September 23, 2001 Sunday 9:00 PMRUNNING TIME:1:56:51COLOR/B&W:ColorRichard Thomas … Executive ProducerGeorgia Manukas … Coordinating ProducerLouis Alvarez … Producer, DirectorAndrew Kolker … Producer, DirectorDocumentary that looks at the ways Americans constantly evaluate and categorize others' social status. For four years, filmmakers Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker crisscrossed the country, shuttling between swanky hang-outs like the Hamptons, to down-home events like Georgia's Redneck Games, to...
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class?