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March 29, 2017
This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class
- Author
- Dews, C.L. Barney and Carolyn Leste Law, eds.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA
- ISBN
- 1566392918
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction (Carolyn Leste Law)
ch. 1 Stupid Rich Bastards (Laurel Johnson Black)
ch. 2 A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the "Classless" Society (Julie A. Charlip)
ch. 3 Bronx Syndrome (Stephen Garger)
ch. 4 The Screenwriter's Tale (Jennifer Lawler)
ch. 5 You Were Raised Better Than That (Naton Leslie)
ch. 6 In the Shadow of My Old Kentucky Home (George T. Martin Jr.)
ch. 7 Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA (Rosa María Pegueros)
ch. 8 Another Day's Journey: An African American in Higher Education (Gloria D. Warren)
ch. 9 Useful Knowledge (Mary Cappello)
ch. 10 A Carpenter's Daughter (Renny Christopher)
ch. 11 Paper Mills (Heather J. Hicks)
ch. 12 The Social Construction of a Working-Class Academic (Dwight Lang)
ch. 13 Working-Class Women as Academics: Seeing in Two Directions, Awkwardly (Nancy LaPaglia)
ch. 14 Ambivalent Maybe (Wilson J. Moses)
ch. 15 Class Matters: Symbolic Boundaries and Cultural Exclusion (Sharon O'Dair)
ch. 16 Nowhere at Home: Toward a Phenomenology of Working-Class Consciousness (Christine Overall)
ch. 17 Past Voices, Present Speakers (Donna Burns Phillips)
ch. 18 Workin' at the U. (Milan Kovacovic)
ch. 19 Class, Composition, and Reform in Departments of English: A Personal Account (Raymond A. Mazurek)
ch. 20 Complicity in Class Codes: the Exclusionary Function of Education (Irvin Peckham)
ch. 21 Is There a Working-Class History?(William A. Pelz)
ch. 22 Psychology's Class Blindness: Investment in the Status Quo (Deborah Piper)
ch. 23 Working It Out: Values, Perspectives, and Autobiography (John Sumser)
ch. 24 The Work of Professing (A Letter to Home) (Michael Schalbe)
Afterword (C.L. Barney Dews)
About the Contributors
These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution. (From the Publisher)