Summary

Chapter 6, titled Race and Class, aims to address the question of whether class is as important as race when speaking of challenges faced in Britain. Generally, class in Britain can be simplified to: “If you’re paid by the hour and you rent your home, then you’re working class, and if you’re paid monthly and you own your home, you’re middle class” (202). In reality, there are more like seven classes in Great Britain and most people of color belong to the emergent service workers’ group, which happens to be the second to lowest group of them all. Multiple studies support the notion “black and minority ethnic people are much more likely to live in income poverty than their white counterparts” (206.) Black men and women also have higher rates of unemployment compared to white men and women. Black people also are...