Richard Kahlenberg’s new book, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America's Colleges, explores the complex interplay between social class and race in shaping opportunity and inequality in America. While the book makes the case for centering class in debates about fairness and access, the discussion expands to consider a range of perspectives on class and race—and where these frameworks converge or diverge in practice—as well as what political coalitions might emerge, shift, or fracture when class is brought to the forefront.