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What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Setting: Midway, U.S.A., an Unassuming City?
2. School: Learning to Live Up to the Paragon
3. Encounters: Intersections and Collisions
4. Income and Work: Making Ends Meet, Barely
5. Encounters: Changing Contexts, Changing Characters
6. Home: Sheltered by Whiteness
7. Encounters: Uncommon Class Commonalities
8. Deconstructing the Color of Class
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments

The Color of Class

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/06/2003
      ISBN13: 9780812218510, 978-0812218510
      ISBN10: 0812218515

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Setting: Midway, U.S.A., an Unassuming City?
      2. School: Learning to Live Up to the Paragon
      3. Encounters: Intersections and Collisions
      4. Income and Work: Making Ends Meet, Barely
      5. Encounters: Changing Contexts, Changing Characters
      6. Home: Sheltered by Whiteness
      7. Encounters: Uncommon Class Commonalities
      8. Deconstructing the Color of Class
      Conclusion
      Notes
      References
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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