"The Dispossessed" William Deresiewicz

SEEING 2:

Deresiewicz addresses in his essay the black and the whites, the gay and the feminists, the Jews, the working and the middle classes, the creators of the mainstream culture such as journalist, editors, writers, producers... But his target audience, in my opinion, should be considered the working class. Those who so-to-say got vanished over time. He declares so they get up and rise their voices again, unite with each other in order to create the strong community that has his own values and traditions, speak out for themselves, not let the middle class mainstream culturers speak for them, come out from the South and proclaim who they truly are. 

Bill Jones is black. He is artistic director, choreographer and dancer.

Roseanne Barr is white. She is TV producer, writer and director.

Barbara Ehrenreich is feminist, political activist and journalist.

Knowing this, we could assume, that black people will know people of the black culture like Jones; white people will be familiar with representative of mainstream culture as Barr; and finally activists of the feminist movement will be acknowledged who is Ehrenreich. 

Country Music Channel will be seen by "redneck" working class from the South. New Your Times will be read by middle and upper class, for those who able to subscribe or buy newspaper or those whose place of work subscribes to it.

And finally the first passage on page 534 describing the qualities of the working class, I believe, is very essential for the essay of Deresiewicz as it promptly notes what values and traditions the working class used to have, why it used to be powerful and how it used to help the community to develop in time. If the essay were written for a different audience, this passage would have not made any sense, but here and now it is an important part of author's work.