Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks

by Muzzatti, Stephen L.; Samarco, C. Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780742535121
• ISBN10: 0742535126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The essays in this collection challenge the predominant image of working class people in higher education by providing a series of analyses and personal commentaries from a wide range of working class academics. Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks imparts a critical and substantial narrative about what it means to be from the working class and work in academe.

Table of Contents

Preface: Serendipity My Ass; Some Preliminary Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(6)
I: Slippin' through the Cracks: Working-Class Academics Challenge the Meritocracy	7	(74)
Happy Accidents: The Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic	9	(14)
Jennifer Beech
Working It Out	23	(14)
Michael Presdee
Personal, Professional, and Political Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful	37	(12)
David Kauzlarich
A Stranger to Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia	49	(12)
Dawn Rothe
Can a Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower	61	(8)
Donna Selman-Killingbeck
Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and the Working-Class Experience in Academia	69	(12)
Stephen L. Muzzatti
C. Vincent Samarco
II: Attacked from Within and Without: Working-Class Academics and Initial Confrontations with Academe	81	(90)
Making Class Matter: My Life as a Semi-Earhole	83	(18)
Donna LeCourt
White, Working Class, and Feminist: Working within the Master's House and Finding Home Again	101	(16)
Julie Ann Harms Cannon
``Gimme That!'': The Working-Class Student Meets the Working-Class Subject	117	(18)
William J. Macauley Jr.
Critique of Domination: The Pain, Praxis, and Polemics of Working-Class Consciousness in Academia	135	(24)
Daniel D. Martin
Working-Class Values and Life in Academe: Examining the Dissonance	159	(12)
Janelle L. Wilson
III: Stoking the Fires of Resistance: Longtime Working-Class Academics Speak	171	(90)
Teaching from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Challenging Privilege and Authority in the Classroom	175	(12)
Kent Sandstrom
The Meaning of Class Differences in the Academic World	187	(10)
Bonnie Berry
Trajectory and Transformation of a Working-Class Girl into an Upper-Middle-Class Associate Dean	197	(10)
Phyllis L. Baker
Making the Grade: Impostors in the Ivory Tower	207	(14)
Lyn Huxford
An Unwashed's Knowledge of Archaeology: Class and Merit in Academic Placement	221	(20)
Michael J. Shott
Class Enriching the Classroom: The ``Radical'' as Rooted Pedagogic Strengths	241	(20)
Livy A. Visano
Index	261	(12)
About the Contributors	273