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This political moment cries out for a volume like Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America that Kristin Haltinner and Leontina

Hormel have so skillfully crafted. The first few months of the Trump presidency are a wakeup call that we are living in profoundly dangerous and volatile times. Resistance and street action are rising up. Analyses of economic inequality and capitalism are critical at this historical conjuncture to teach, and to vision, strategize, and inform today’s social struggles. Moving beyond capitalism—and the alienation, exploitation, racial and gender oppression, and dispossession that it produces and reproduces—is vital for the survival of humanity and the planet. Understanding and teaching about economic inequality within capitalism, the focus of this powerful collection, is one of the burning pedagogical imperatives of this age. How did we get here? How will the ongoing …