ISBN:
9780801479656
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Series Statement:
A Class Action Book Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Class Lives : Stories from across Our Economic Divide
DDC:
305.50973
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Intergroup relations - United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Together, these essays form a powerful narrative about the experience of class.
Abstract:
Class Lives -- Contents -- Introduction: Caviar, College, Coupons, and Cheese -- PART I. POOR AND LOW INCOME -- Cleaning Up the Trash: Fighting Shame -- North American Peasant -- I Work with Worn-Out Tools -- Mexican Girl from Fontana -- What They Say about Poor Girls -- Better Than -- No Yellow Tickets: The Stigma of Poverty in the School Lunch Line -- PART II. WORKING CLASS -- 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 -- 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: Toward Meritocracy or Internalized Classism? -- My Parents' Hands Are on My Back -- PART III. MIDDLE CLASS -- "Better Be Street": My Adventures in Cross-Class Romance -- It's Who You Know and How You Talk -- Childhood Friendship: When Class Didn't Matter -- 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 -- 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 -- Coming Clean -- Ferragamos: A Cross-Class Experience -- Girl Scout Green -- Living beyond Class: My Journey from Haiti to Harvard -- Afterword: The Power of Story -- About the Contributors -- Resources -- About Class Action.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Class Lives""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Caviar, College, Coupons, and Cheese""; ""PART I. POOR AND LOW INCOME""; ""Cleaning Up the Trash: Fighting Shame""; ""North American Peasant""; ""I Work with Worn-Out Tools""; ""Mexican Girl from Fontana""; ""What They Say about Poor Girls""; ""Better Than""; ""No Yellow Tickets: The Stigma of Poverty in the School Lunch Line""; ""PART II. WORKING CLASS""; ""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Red Datsun Security""""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: Toward Meritocracy or Internalized Classism?""; ""My Parents� Hands Are on My Back""; ""PART III. MIDDLE CLASS""; ""“Better Be Street�: My Adventures in Cross-Class Romance""; ""It�s Who You Know and How You Talk""; ""Childhood Friendship: When Class Didn�t Matter""; ""Finding Myself in the Middle""
Description / Table of Contents:
""A Privileged Path in a Class-Shattered World""""Oreo? A Black American Experience""; ""Class Is Always with Us""; ""PART IV. OWNING CLASS""; ""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""; ""Coming Clean""; ""Ferragamos: A Cross-Class Experience""; ""Girl Scout Green""; ""Living beyond Class: My Journey from Haiti to Harvard""; ""Afterword: The Power of Story""; ""About the Contributors""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Resources""""About Class Action""
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Description based upon print version of record
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