Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Carolyn Leste Law
Part I: Lives Are Not Essays
1. Stupid Rich Bastards – Laurel Johnson Black
2. A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the "Classless" Society – Julie A. Charlip
3. Bronx Syndrome – Stephen Garger
4. The Screenwriter's Tale – Jennifer Lawler
5. You Were Raised Better Than That – Naton Leslie
6. In the Shadow of My Old Kentucky Home – George T. Martin, Jr.
7. Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA – Rosa María Pegueros
8. Another Day's Journey: An African American in Higher Education – Gloria D. Warren
Part II: Border States
9. Useful Knowledge – Mary Cappello
10. A Carpenter's Daughter – Renny Christopher
11. Paper Mills – Heather J. Hicks
12. The Social Construction of a Working-Class Academic – Dwight Lang
13. Working-Class Women as Academics: Seeing in Two Directions, Awkwardly – Nancy LaPaglia
14. Ambivalent Maybe – Wilson J. Moses
15. Class Matters: Symbolic Boundaries and Cultural Exclusion – Sharon O'Dair
16. Nowhere at Home: Toward a Phenomenology of Working-Class Consciousness – Christine Overall
17. Past Voices, Present Speakers – Donna Burns Phillips
Part III: The Intellectual Worker/The Academic Workplace
18. Workin' at the U. – Milan Kovacovic
19. Class, Composition, and Reform in Departments of English: A Personal Account – Raymond A. Mazurek
20. Complicity in Class Codes: The Exclusionary Function of Education – Irvin Peckham
21. Is There a Working-Class History? – William A. Pelz
22. Psychology's Class Blindness: Investment in the Status Quo – Deborah Piper
23. Working It Out: Values, Perspectives, and Autobiography – John Sumser
Part IV: Awayward Mobility
24. The Work of Professing (A Letter to Home) – Michael Schwalbe
Afterword – C.L. Barney Dews