Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy

by Van Galen, Jane A.

• ISBN13: 9780791470930
• ISBN10: 0791470938
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Looks at the educational experiences of poor, working class, and middle class students against the backdrop of complicated class stratification in a shifting global economy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Getting to Class
Growing Up as Poor, White Trash: Stories of Where I Come From	p. 19
Class/Culture/Action: Representation, Identity, and Agency in Educational Analysis	p. 29
Class Work
Living Class as a Girl	p. 55
Marginalization and Membership	p. 87
Orchestrating Habitus and Figured Worlds: Chicana/o Educational Mobility and Social Class	p. 113
High School Students' Exploration of Class Differences in a Multicultural Literature Class	p. 141
Social Class and African-American Parental Involvement	p. 167
Social Heteroglossia: The Contentious Practice or Potential Place of Middle-Class Parents in Home-School Relations	p. 203
After Class
(Re)Turning to Marx to Understand the Unexpected Anger Among "Winners" in Schooling: A Critical Social Psychology Perspective	p. 235
The Problem of Poverty: Shifting Attention to the Non-Poor	p. 269
Intersections on the Back Road: Class, Culture, and Education in Rural and Appalachian Places	p. 287
Class-Declasse	p. 313
List of Contributors	p. 347
Name Index	p. 353
Subject Index	p. 361
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