Stephen L. Muzzatti, Vincent C. Samarco

Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks (eBook, ePUB)

Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle class cultural capital on relatively new academics from the working class, and; iii) narratives that explore the effects of class on longtime academics from the working class. The effect of the collection will be cumulative. By choosing contributors from multiple disciplines, including both established and emerging voices, the text articulates the pervasiveness of class bias in this country and fleshes out the mechanisms that mask how class and power work. Such a text is critically important, both inside and outside academia, because it demystifies the academic world for those who have been restricted by it, but also engages critically trained academics and academics-in-waiting to understand and respond to the experiences of working class students. Finally, the authors hope this text will encourage other working class students to consider an academic career as an option.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461615088
• Artikelnr.: 37953749

Autorenporträt

By Stephen L. Muzzatti and Vincent C. Samarco - Contributions by Phyllis L. Baker; Jennifer Beech; Bonnie Berry...

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Happy Accidents: the Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic
Chapter 2 Working it Out Chapter 3 Personal, Professional, and Political
Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful Chapter 4 A Stranger to
Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia Chapter 5 Can a
Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower
Chapter 6 Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and
the Working-Class Experience in Academe Chapter 7 Making Class Matter: My
Life as a Semi-Earhole Chapter 8 White, Working Class, and Feminist:
Working Within The Master's House and Finding Home Again Chapter 9 "Gimme
That!": The Working-Class Student Meets the Working-Class Subject Chapter
10 Critique of Domination: The Pain, Praxis, and Polemics of Working-Class
Consciousness in Academia Chapter 11 Working-Class Values and Life in
Academe: Examining the Dissonance Chapter 12 Teaching from the Wrong Side
of the Tracks: Challenging Privilege and Authority In the Classroom Chapter
13 The Meaning of Class Differences in the Academic World Chapter 14
Trajectory and Transformation of a Working-Class Girl into an
Upper-Middle-Class Associate Dean Chapter 15 Making the Grade: Imposters in
the Ivory Tower Chapter 16 An Unwashed's Knowledge of Archaeolgy: Class and
Merit in Academic Placement Chapter 17 Class Enriching the Classroom: the
"Radical" as Rooted Pedagogic Strengths