{"id":13366,"date":"2020-07-14T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13366"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:38:21","slug":"all-the-colors-above-them-gloria-miklowitzs-war-between-the-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/07\/all-the-colors-above-them-gloria-miklowitzs-war-between-the-classes.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All the Colors Above Them&#8221;: Gloria Miklowitz&#8217;s &#8220;War Between the Classes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m at We Are the Mutants, bowing and curtsying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assign teenagers to different socioeconomic classes and require the lower classes to perform humiliating rituals of obeisance to the upper. Give other students the power to enforce class boundaries and punish those who get ideas above their station. Make sure the artificial hierarchy affects the students\u2019 friendships and grades. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>This is the setup for Gloria D. Miklowitz\u2019s 1985 young adult novel, <i>The War Between the Classes<\/i>. But it\u2019s also the premise of a real classroom exercise developed in the late \u201970s by Occidental College Professor Ray Otero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wearethemutants.com\/2020\/07\/14\/all-the-colors-above-them-gloria-miklowitzs-the-war-between-the-classes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at We Are the Mutants, bowing and curtsying: Assign teenagers to different socioeconomic classes and require the lower classes to perform humiliating rituals of obeisance to the upper. 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