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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection is quite effective in capturing a representation of the diversity, including the similar and dissimilar experiences, of those aspiring and successful academics from a working class background. -- Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University; author of Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding
This is a relevant and emotionally compelling collection of essays. The authors delve deeply into to the issues of class conflict and ambivalence, the tension between the professional-managerial class and the working class, and the obstacles to social mobility. Recommended.... -- Charles Varano, California State University, Sacramento
This is a relevant and emotionally compelling collection of essays. The authors delve deeply into to the issues of class conflict and ambivalence, the tension between the professional-managerial class and the working class, and the obstacles to social mobility. Recommended. -- Charles Varano, California State University, Sacramento
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Happy Accidents: the Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic Chapter 2 Working it Out Chapter 3 Personal, Professional, and Political Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful Chapter 4 A Stranger to Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia Chapter 5 Can a Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower Chapter 6 Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and the Working-Class Experience in Academe Chapter 7 Making Class Matter: My Life as a Semi-Earhole Chapter 8 White, Working Class, and Feminist: Working Within The Master's House and Finding Home Again Chapter 9 "Gimme That!": The Working-Class Student Meets the Working-Class Subject Chapter 10 Critique of Domination: The Pain, Praxis, and Polemics of Working-Class Consciousness in Academia Chapter 11 Working-Class Values and Life in Academe: Examining the Dissonance Chapter 12 Teaching from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Challenging Privilege and Authority In the Classroom Chapter 13 The Meaning of Class Differences in the Academic World Chapter 14 Trajectory and Transformation of a Working-Class Girl into an Upper-Middle-Class Associate Dean Chapter 15 Making the Grade: Imposters in the Ivory Tower Chapter 16 An Unwashed's Knowledge of Archaeolgy: Class and Merit in Academic Placement Chapter 17 Class Enriching the Classroom: the "Radical" as Rooted Pedagogic Strengths
