This fine place so far from home : voices of academics from the working class

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This fine place so far from home : voices of academics from the working class

edited by C.L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law

Temple University Press, 1995

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These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution. C. L. Barney Dews is visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature in the English and Foreign Languages Department, University of West Florida. Carolyn Leste Law is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the University of Minnesota.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Carolyn Leste Law Part I: Lives Are Not Essays 1. Stupid Rich Bastards Laurel Johnson Black 2. A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the "Classless" Society Julie A. Charlip 3. Bronx Syndrome Stephen Garger 4. The Screenwriter's Tale Jennifer Lawler 5. You Were Raised Better Than That Naton Leslie 6. In the Shadow of My Old Kentucky Home George T. Martin, Jr. 7. Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA Rosa Maria Pegueros 8. Another Day's Journey: An African American in Higher Education Gloria D. Warren Part II: Border States 9. Useful Knowledge Mary Cappello 10. A Carpenter's Daughter Renny Christopher 11. Paper Mills Heather J. Hicks 12. The Social Construction of a Working-Class Academic Dwight Lang 13. Working-Class Women as Academics: Seeing in Two Directions, Awkwardly Nancy LaPaglia 14. Ambivalent Maybe Wilson J. Moses 15. Class Matters: Symbolic Boundaries and Cultural Exclusion Sharon O'Dair 16. Nowhere at Home: Toward a Phenomenology of Working-Class Consciousness Christine Overall 17. Past Voices, Present Speakers Donna Burns Phillips Part III: The Intellectual Worker/The Academic Workplace 18. Workin' at the U. Milan Kovacovic 19. Class, Composition, and Reform in Departments of English: A Personal Account Raymond A. Mazurek 20. Complicity in Class Codes: The Exclusionary Function of Education Irvin Peckham 21. Is There a Working-Class History? William A. Pelz 22. Psychology's Class Blindness: Investment in the Status Quo Deborah Piper 23. Working It Out: Values, Perspectives, and Autobiography John Sumser Part IV: Awayward Mobility 24. The Work of Professing (A Letter to Home) Michael Schwalbe Afterword C.L. Barney Dews About the Contributors

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