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  • This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class
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  • edited by C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law
  • 2010
  • Published by: Temple University Press
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These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. I. Lives Are Not Essays
  1. 1. Stupid Rich Bastards
  2. pp. 13-25
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  1. 2. A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the "Classless" Society
  2. pp. 26-40
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  1. 3. Bronx Syndrome
  2. pp. 41-53
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  1. 4. The Screenwriter's Tale
  2. pp. 54-65
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  1. 5. You Were Raised Better Than That
  2. pp. 66-74
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  1. 6. In the Shadow of My Old Kentucky Home
  2. pp. 75-86
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  1. 7. Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA
  2. pp. 87-105
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  1. 8. Another Day's Journey: An African American in Higher Education
  2. pp. 106-124
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  1. II. Border States
  1. 9. Useful Knowledge
  2. pp. 127-136
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  1. 10. A Carpenter's Daughter
  2. pp. 137-150
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  1. 11. Paper Mills
  2. pp. 151-158
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  1. 12. The Social Construction of a Working-Class Academic
  2. pp. 159-176
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  1. 13. Working-Class Women as Academics: Seeing in Two Directions, Awkwardly
  2. pp. 177-186
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  1. 14. Ambivalent Maybe
  2. pp. 187-199
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  1. 15. Class Matters: Symbolic Boundaries and Cultural Exclusion
  2. pp. 200-208
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  1. 16. Nowhere at Home: Toward a Phenomenology of Working-Class Consciousness
  2. pp. 209-220
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  1. 17. Past Voices, Present Speakers
  2. pp. 221-230
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  1. III. The Intellectual Worker/The Academic Workplace
  1. 18. Workin' at the U.
  2. pp. 233-248
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  1. 19. Class, Composition, and Reform in Departments of English: A Personal Account
  2. pp. 249-262
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  1. 20. Complicity in Class Codes: The Exclusionary Function of Education
  2. pp. 263-276
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  1. 21. Is There a Working-Class History?
  2. pp. 277-285
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  1. 22. Psychology's Class Blindness: Investment in the Status Quo
  2. pp. 286-296
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  1. 23. Working It Out: Values, Perspectives, and Autobiography
  2. pp. 297-306
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  1. IV. Awayward Mobility
  1. 24. The Work of Professing (A Letter to Home)
  2. pp. 309-331
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  1. Afterword / C. L. Barney Dews
  2. pp. 332-336
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. pp. 337-341
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