‘White, Still’: The Myth Of The White Eclipse

By Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo for Brookings The American upper middle class is separating along educational, economic, cultural and geographical lines. At least, that’s my contention in Dream Hoarders. My focus in the book is on class, rather than race, but of course the two are deeply intertwined. Many of the unfair “opportunity hoarding” mechanisms used by the upper middle class have racist origins — exclusionary zoning, legacy preferences, for instance — and now serve to