Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges (Book Review‪)‬

Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges. 2010. Yvette Taylor, Ed, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, England, 272 pp (Hard cover), $60. There is no doubt that we live in a classed society although how class is perceived or conceptualized differs from one society to another. Demographers and sociologists have looked at class from a socio-economic perspective where a population is classified as either lower, middle or upper class based on employment, income or material wealth. African countries by virtue of their contact with Western societies through colonial governments and missionaries inherited a class system that comprised of small educated elite, the middle class and the low class. However, these are narrow conceptions of class or social stratification. Class is much deeper and a whole lot of other factors come into play. But can we see class? An interesting perspective is given by Kuhn 1995(p98) as cited by McDermott (2010) in chapter 10 of the book under review, who states that, 'Class is something beneath your clothes, under your skin, in your psyche, at the very core of your being.'