Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe,9780742535114

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

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ISBN13: 9780742535114
ISBN10: 0742535118
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-30
Publisher(s): 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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