Class Lives : Stories from across Our Economic Divide /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Class Action (Organization) (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Yeskel, Felice (Editor), Seider, Maynard, 1943- (Editor), Ladd, Jennifer, 1952- (Editor), Collins, Chuck, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social classes.
Intergroup relations.
Class consciousness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Relations intergroupes > États-Unis.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
Conscience de classe > États-Unis.
Intergroup relations > United States.
Social classes > United States.
Class consciousness > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Caviar, College, Coupons, and Cheese / Felice Yeskel
  • Part I. Poor and low income: Cleaning Up the Trash : Fighting Shame / Linda Stout. North American Peasant / Fisher Lavell. I Work with Worn-Out Tools / Janet Lightfoot. Mexican Girl from Fontana / Geneva Reynaga-Abiko. What They Say about Poor Girls / Stephanie Jones. Better Than / Patience Rage. No Yellow Tickets : The Stigma of Poverty in the School Lunch Line / Wendy Williams
  • Part II. Working class: Reflections (Those of Us from Rio Linda / Dwight Lang. The Cost of Passing / John Rosario-Perez. The Floors of the Met / Karen Estrella. Washroom Class Politics / Timothy Harris. Artichokes / N. Jeanne Burns. Here's How to Drive the Poor Crazy / Michaelann Bewsee. Red Datsun Security / Karen Spector) ; Working class and college (A Box from My Grandfather / Janet Casey. Vacuum Cleaner Truth / Sierra Fleenor. I Am Working Class / Michelle M. Tokarczyk. Hitting the Academic Class Ceiling / K. Stricker. Blue-Collar Heart, Ivy League World / Jennifer O'Connor Duffy. Between Scarcity and Plenty / Camisha Jones. A Nuyorican's Journey to Higher Education : Toward Meritocracy or Internalized Classism? / Jim Bonilla. My Parents' Hands Are on My Back / Christine Overall)
  • Part III. Middle class: "Better Be Street" : My Adventures in Cross-Class Romance / Polly Trout. It's Who You Know and How You Talk / Betsy Leondar-Wright. Childhood Friendship : When Class Didn't Matter / Pamela Burrows. Finding Myself in the Middle / Monica Crumback. A Privileged Path in a Class-Shattered World / Anne Ellinger. Oreo? : A Black American Experience / John Vaughn. Class Is Always with Us / Kyle Harris
  • Part IV. Owning class: Born on Third Base / Chuck Collins. Money Was Never a Worry / Catherine Orland. The Women Who Cared for My Grandparents / Sarah Burgess. What Was It Like Growing Up Owning-Class? / Jennifer Ladd. A Day of Traveling across the Class Spectrum / Charlotte Redway. Social Capital / Sally Gottesman
  • Part V. Mixed class: Coming Clean / April Rosenblum. Ferragamos : A Cross-Class Experience / Zoe Greenberg. Girl Scout Green / Mariah Boone. Living beyond Class : My Journey from Haiti to Harvard / Jacques Fleury
  • Afterword: The Power of Story / Chuck Collins.

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