Notes
1. Thanks to Barb Biesecker for helpful comments. Justin Lewis, Constructing Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press), 2001.
2. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World, 2004; Pew Hispanic Center, From 200 Million to 300 Million: The Numbers Behind Population Growth, 2006; Irene Bloemraad, Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); Abraham T. Mosisa, “The Role of Foreign-Born Workers in the US Economy,” Monthly Labor Review, May 2002: 3–14; Marta Tienda, “Demography and the Social Contract,” Demography 39, no. 4 (2002): 587–616; Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration, 3rd ed. (New York: Guilford Press, 2003); US Census Bureau News, “Minority Population Tops 100 Million,” 17 May 2007; Pew Hispanic Center, Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States, 2006, 2008; “Open Up,” Economist, 5 January 2008: 3–5.
3. Theda Skocpol, “The Narrowing of Civic Life,” American Prospect, June 2004: A5–A7; Bruce H. Webster Jr. and Alemayehu Bishaw, Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2005 American Community Survey, US Census Bureau, American Community Survey Reports, ACS-02, 2006; Susan Sered Starr and Rushika Fernandopulle, Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007); Michael D. Yates, “A Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Working Class,” Monthly Review 56, no. 11 (2005): 12–31; Will Hutton, A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003); Gary Younge, “In the US, Class War Still Means Just One Thing: The Rich Attacking the Poor,” Guardian, 3 September 2007; Minor quoted in Isabel Sawhill and John E. Morton, Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?, Economic Mobility Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2007; Jared Bernstein, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006); Jacob S. Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Shawn Tully, “A Profit Gusher of Epic Proportions,” Fortune, 15 April 2007.
4. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1874).
5. “Ever Higher Society, Ever Harder to Ascend,” Economist, 1 January 2005: 22–24; Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006).
6. Tully, loc. cit.; Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong, “Shaken and Stirred,” Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2005: 112–17; Kevin G. Hall, “The Rich are Getting Much Richer, Much Faster than Everyone Else,” McClatchy Newspapers, 3 November 2006.