Deseret Magazine Quotes Professor Pruitt on Democratic Party, White Working Class

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke to reporter Mya Jaradat for an April Deseret Magazine story headlined “Workin’ Man Blues.” Pruitt discussed ways in which the Democratic Party has alienated members of the white working class.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.