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

, by Muzzatti, Stephen L.; Samarco, Vincent C.; Baker, Phyllis L.; Beech, Jennifer; Berry, Bonnie; Harms-Cannon, Julie; Huxford, Lyn; Kauzlarich, David; Selman-Killingbeck, Donna; LeCourt, Donna; Macauley, William; Martin, Daniel D.; Presdee, Mike; Rothe, Dawn

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ISBN: 9780742535114 | 0742535118
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/30/2005

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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.

Preface: Serendipity My Ass; Some Preliminary Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

(6)

1: Slippin' through the Cracks: Working-Class Academics Challenge the Meritocracy

(74)

1 Happy Accidents: The Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic

(14)

Jennifer Beech

2 Working It Out

(14)

Michael Presdee

3 Personal, Professional, and Political Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful

(12)

David Kauzlarich

4 A Stranger to Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia

(12)

Dawn Rothe

5 Can a Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower

(8)

Donna Selman-Killingbeck

6 Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and the Working-Class Experience in Academia

(12)

Stephen L. Muzzatti and C. Vincent Samarco

II: Attacked from Within and Without: Working-Class Academics and Initial Confrontations with Academe

(90)

7 Making Class Matter: My Life as a Semi-Earhole

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

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