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About Us

The Caucus on Class includes graduate students, independent scholars, activists, practitioners, and faculty with an interest in the ways social class and economic systems influence culture, curriculum, and the conditions under which people work and live. The Caucus organizes panels and other activities to build solidarity among its members and to provide support and advocacy around caucus concerns. The Caucus was established in 1989.

Mission

The Caucus on Class focuses on the way socioeconomic systems and class struggle impact film and media and those who study and consume it. The Caucus comes to the study of class through a critical, materialist, global, intersectional lens, amplifying scholarly and creative work that engages issues of power and resistance. The Caucus aims to build on the anti-imperialist, anti-oppressive histories and methodologies foundational to scholars and creatives in this area of analysis and practice. The Caucus provides a forum for sustained critique of ways the academy and other institutions perpetuate oppressive, alienating, and exploitative conditions for laborers. It also supports and highlights research and creative production that seeks to transform those conditions. The Caucus seeks to forge greater solidarity with other SCMS groups to analyze and address the class and caste disparities embedded in gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and other hierarchies. As scholars and practitioners bound by a shared interest in class relations and materialist methodologies, the Caucus strives to foster more complex understandings of how class issues intersect with film, media, social relations, and lived experiences.