Critical Analysis Of Still Separate Still Unequal By Gregory Mantsios

Each author brings a an important piece of information to the table, but one must compile all that is presented if they truly want to grasp the connection between power, social class, and education in modern day America. There are some connections one would not think of, but after reading through these articles, light has definitely been shed both on these topics and how they relate to each other. The three authors, Jonathan Kozol, C.H. Knoblauch, and Gregory Mantsios have various backgrounds, yet they share a common goal. Each wanted to reveal the truth about American society. Kozol, who wrote Still Separate, Still Unequal, was a writer, teacher, and an activist. While briefly teaching at several “lower class schools”, he often wrote about the steep downward decline of our educational system. On the other hand, Knoblauch who authored Literacy and the Politics of Education was considerably more professional in terms of his career. As a professor of English, he had an interest in literacy studies. Knoblauch wanted to reveal America’s state of literacy and what types of literacy actually exist. As the author of Class in America, Mantsios, was a director at Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education. He also directed the labor studies department at the City University of New …show more content…
Kozol believes the more wealth a person has, the more literate they become, thus the higher they climb on the social class tree. From a more professional view on literacy, Knoblauch, who has a special focus in literacy along with being a professor, states that the type of literacy one has directly determines their social class. Mantsios reasons that Americans as a whole do not like to put people into specific social classes. They, instead, throw everyone into the “middle class”. He also reasons that it is nearly impossible to climb social classes. Where you are born into is where you will