bourgeoisie

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This uncomfortably hilarious and cutting dramedy from Simón Mesa Soto addresses both artistic failure and how often creative fields expect voices from disadvantaged backgrounds to exploit their trauma for the edification of the bourgeoisie.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Not for him were the depictions of the lives and leisure of the wealthy or the bourgeoisie favored by Renoir, Cassatt and Morisot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

"The Viennese bourgeoisie took them to cafes and shopping, and showed them the local monuments," he added.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

"Before the MFM, the struggle on China's cultural front was a struggle between the new culture of the bourgeoisie and the old culture of the feudal class," he wrote.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

And each day, I learned, in one or another way, of more support from non-Muslim Negroes, including a surprising lot of the “middle” and “upper class” black bourgeoisie, who were sick of the status-symbol charade.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey