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9780742535114

Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

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    9780742535114

  • ISBN10:

    0742535118

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-30
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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)
1: Slippin' through the Cracks: Working-Class Academics Challenge the Meritocracy 7(74)
1 Happy Accidents: The Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic
9(14)
Jennifer Beech
2 Working It Out
23(14)
Michael Presdee
3 Personal, Professional, and Political Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful
37(12)
David Kauzlarich
4 A Stranger to Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia
49(12)
Dawn Rothe
5 Can a Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower
61(8)
Donna Selman-Killingbeck
6 Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and the Working-Class Experience in Academia
69(12)
Stephen L. Muzzatti and C. Vincent Samarco
II: Attacked from Within and Without: Working-Class Academics and Initial Confrontations with Academe 81(90)
7 Making Class Matter: My Life as a Semi-Earhole
83(18)
Donna LeCourt
8 White, Working Class, and Feminist: Working within the Master's House and Finding Home Again
101(16)
Julie Ann Harms Cannon
9 "Gimme That!": The Working-Class Student Meets the Working-Class Subject
117(18)
William J. Macauley Jr.
10 Critique of Domination: The Pain, Praxis, and Polemics of Working-Class Consciousness in Academia
135(24)
Daniel D. Martin
11 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)
12 Teaching from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Challenging Privilege and Authority in the Classroom
175(12)
Kent Sandstrom
13 The Meaning of Class Differences in the Academic World
187(10)
Bonnie Berry
14 Trajectory and Transformation of a Working-Class Girl into an Upper-Middle-Class Associate Dean
197(10)
Phyllis L. Baker
15 Making the Grade: Impostors in the Ivory Tower
207(14)
Lyn Huxford
16 An Unwashed's Knowledge of Archaeology: Class and Merit in Academic Placement
221(20)
Michael J. Shott
17 Class Enriching the Classroom: The "Radical" as Rooted Pedagogic Strengths
241(20)
Livy A. Visano
Index 261(12)
About the Contributors 273

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