Class Lives : : Stories from across Our Economic Divide /

Class Lives : : Stories from across Our Economic Divide / / ed. by Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel, Maynard Seider, Jennifer Ladd.

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Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Bewsee, Michaelann,
Bonilla, Jim,
Boone, Mariah,
Burgess, Sarah,
Burns, N. Jeanne,
Burrows, Pamela,
Casey, Janet,
Collins, Chuck,
Crumback, Monica,
Ellinger, Anne,
Estrella, Karen,
Fleenor, Sierra,
Fleury, Jacques,
Gottesman, Sally,
Greenberg, Zoe,
Harris, Kyle,
Harris, Timothy,
Jones, Camisha,
Jones, Stephanie,
Ladd, Jennifer,
Lang, Dwight,
Lavell, Fisher,
Leondar-Wright, Betsy,
Lightfoot, Janet,
Orland, Catherine,
Overall, Christine,
O’Connor Duffy, Jennifer,
Rage, Patience,
Redway, Charlotte,
Reynaga-Abiko, Geneva,
Rosario-Perez, John,
Rosenblum, April,
Spector, Karen,
Stout, Linda,
Stricker, K.,
Tokarczyk, Michelle M.,
Trout, Polly,
Vaughn, John,
Williams, Wendy,
Yeskel, Felice,
HerausgeberIn:
Collins, Chuck,
Ladd, Jennifer,
Seider, Maynard,
Yeskel, Felice,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:A Class Action Book
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Caviar, College, Coupons, and Cheese
  • Part I. Poor and Low Income
  • Introduction
  • Cleaning Up the Trash
  • North American Peasant
  • I Work with Worn-Out Tools
  • Mexican Girl from Fontana
  • What They Say about Poor Girls
  • Better Than
  • No Yellow Tickets
  • Part II. Working Class
  • Reflections
  • Those of Us from Rio Linda
  • The Cost of Passing
  • The Floors of the Met
  • Washroom Class Politics
  • Artichokes
  • Here’s How to Drive the Poor Crazy
  • Red Datsun Security
  • Working Class and College
  • A Box from My Grandfather
  • Vacuum Cleaner Truth
  • I Am Working Class
  • Hitting the Academic Class Ceiling
  • Blue-Collar Heart, Ivy League World
  • Between Scarcity and Plenty
  • A Nuyorican’s Journey to Higher Education
  • My Parents’ Hands Are on My Back
  • Part III. Middle Class
  • Introduction
  • “Better Be Street”
  • It’s Who You Know and How You Talk
  • Childhood Friendship
  • Finding Myself in the Middle
  • A Privileged Path in a Class-Shattered World
  • Oreo? A Black American Experience
  • Class Is Always with Us
  • Part IV. Owning Class
  • Introduction
  • Born on Third Base
  • Money Was Never a Worry
  • The Women Who Cared for My Grandparents
  • What Was It Like Growing Up Owning-Class?
  • A Day of Traveling across the Class Spectrum
  • Social Capital
  • Part V. Mixed Class
  • Introduction
  • Coming Clean
  • Ferragamos
  • Girl Scout Green
  • Living beyond Class
  • Afterword: The Power of Story
  • About the Contributors
  • Resources
  • About Class Action

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