The White Working Class.

Thinking Allowed

• Episode: The White Working Class.
• Website: Thinking Allowed
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006qy05.rss
• Duration: 00:28:21
• Published: 2018-02-28 18:01

The white working class - are they the left behind? Noam Gidron, a Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University, asks if the right wing, populist vote is a reflection of the declining social status of this group. He's joined by Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, who argues that a concern with economic disadvantage, when talking about the election of Trump, as well as Brexit, has led to a new 'identity politics' of race - one where class takes second place to 'whiteness'. The writer and broadcaster, Kenan Malik, joins the discussion. Producer: Jayne Egerton.