- Author
- Linkon, Sherry Lee, ed.
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
- ISBN
- 1558491880
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Teaching Working Class(Sherry Lee Linkon )
Writing the Personal: Narrative, Social Class, and Feminist Pedagogy (Ann E. Green )
Border Crossings: Working-Class Encounters in Higher Education (Richard A. Greenwald, and Elizabeth A. Grant)
Reversals of Fortune: Downward Mobility and the Writing of Nontraditional Students (Anne Aronson)
The (Dis)location of Culture: On the Way to Literacy (Joanna Brooks, Fern Cayetano)
Between Dirty Dishes and Polished Discourse: How Working-Class Moms Construct Student Identities (Eileen Ferretti)
The Shape of the form: Working-Class Students and the Academic Essay (Linda Adler-Kassner)
What Kinds of Tools? Teaching Critical Analysis and Writing to Working-Class Students (Joseph Heathcott )
"Just American"? Reversing Ethnic and Class Assimilation in the Academy (Caroline Pari)
To Know, to Remember, to Realize: Illinois Labor Works - A History Workers Can Use (Robert Bruno, and Lisa Jordan)
Striking Close to Home: Students Confront the 1985 Hormel Strike (Colette Hyman)
Critical Literacy and the Organizing Model of Unionism: Reading and Writing History at a Steelworkers' Union Hall (Kelly Belanger, Linda Strom, John Russo)
Telling Toil: Issues in Teaching Labor Literature (Laura Hapke)
Films of and for a Working-Class World (Tom Zaniello)
Teaching Working-Class Literature to Mixed Audiences (Renny Christopher)
Class, Race, and Culture: Teaching Intercultural Communication (Anthony Esposito )
Immigrant Fiction, Working-and Middle-Class White Students, and Multicultural Empathy: A Pedagogical Balancing Act (Charles Johanningsmeier0
Teaching the Convergence of Race and Class in Introductory Asian American Studies (John Streamas )
Difficult Dialogues: Working-Class Studies in a Multicultural Literature Classroom (Terry Easton, Jennifer Lutzenberger)
Notes
Contributors
Index
Since the 1970s, working-class individuals have made up an increasing proportion of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. At the same time, working-class studies has emerged as a new academic discipline, updating a long tradition of scholarship on labor history and proletarian literature to include discussions of working-class culture, intersections of class with race and ethnicity, and studies of the representation of the working class in popular culture. These developments have generated new ideas about teaching that incorporate both a sensitivity to the working-class roots of many students and the inclusion of course content informed by an awareness of class culture. (From the Publisher)