Class Lives : Stories from across Our Economic Divide /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | A Class Action Book
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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