People like us
Subtitle: social class in America
By: a film by Andrew Kolker & Louis Alvarez ; Center for New American Media and WETA, Washington, D.C. in association with ITVS, Independent Television Service, presents ; produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker
Contributors: Myers, Lora; Center for New American Media; Independent Television Service; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); CNAM Film Library
Series: CJA 457 (NU course); SOC 100 (NU course); SOC 325 (NU course); SOC 350 (NU course); SOC 500 (NU course); SOC 604 (NU course)
Publisher: Center for New American Media; Distributed by CNAM Film Library
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY; Harriman, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781877989438
Subjects: Social classes; Occupations; Social conditions; Social life and customs
Other titles: Social class in America
Description: Using interviews with people from across the country and from diverse socioeconomic groups, examines how social class in America has as much influence as race or ethnicity in determining what kind of opportunities a person has in life.
Notes: First broadcast on PBS in September, 2001.

Teacher's guide by Lora Myers.

Extras including filmmakers' bios (text) and additional scenes: Trouble in paradise (2:45); You are your stuff (2:41); Belles, Belles, Belles (3:37); More WASP lessons (2:12).

Co-produced and edited by Peter Odabashian ; camera, Stephen McCarthy and Jefferson Miller.

Narrator, Rudy Cheeks.

Additional resources, including trailer, additional scenes, teacher's guide (complete text) and bibliography available online at the PBS website.

Transcript available online at the Center for New American Media website.

DVD.