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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Affecting stories of faculty and graduate students from working-class on their struggles in academia<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566392907&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1024_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>This Fine Place So Far from Home</h1>
<H2>Voices of Academics from the Working Class</H2>
<h3>edited by C. L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Leste Law</h3>
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"A collection of essays by faculty members and several graduate students, this book provides [a] glimpse of the class system in the United States and how it plays out in colleges and universities....[This] is a moving book, beautifully written."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Contemporary Sociology</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>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.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction – Carolyn Leste Law
<p><b>Part I: Lives Are Not Essays</b>
<br>1. Stupid Rich Bastards – Laurel Johnson Black
<br>2. A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the "Classless" Society – Julie A. Charlip
<br>3. Bronx Syndrome – Stephen Garger
<br>4. The Screenwriter's Tale – Jennifer Lawler
<br>5. You Were Raised Better Than That – Naton Leslie
<br>6. In the Shadow of My Old Kentucky Home – George T. Martin, Jr.
<br>7. <I>Todos Vuelven</I>: From Potrero Hill to UCLA – Rosa Mar�a Pegueros
<br>8. Another Day's Journey: An African American in Higher Education – Gloria D. Warren
<p><b>Part II: Border States</b>
<br>9. Useful Knowledge – Mary Cappello
<br>10. A Carpenter's Daughter – Renny Christopher
<br>11. Paper Mills – Heather J. Hicks
<br>12. The Social Construction of a Working-Class Academic – Dwight Lang
<br>13. Working-Class Women as Academics: Seeing in Two Directions, Awkwardly – Nancy LaPaglia
<br>14. Ambivalent Maybe – Wilson J. Moses
<br>15. Class Matters: Symbolic Boundaries and Cultural Exclusion – Sharon O'Dair
<br>16. Nowhere at Home: Toward a Phenomenology of Working-Class Consciousness – Christine Overall
<br>17. Past Voices, Present Speakers – Donna Burns Phillips
<p><b>Part III: The Intellectual Worker/The Academic Workplace</b>
<br>18. Workin' at the U. – Milan Kovacovic
<br>19. Class, Composition, and Reform in Departments of English: A Personal Account – Raymond A. Mazurek
<br>20. Complicity in Class Codes: The Exclusionary Function of Education – Irvin Peckham
<br>21. Is There a Working-Class History? – William A. Pelz
<br>22. Psychology's Class Blindness: Investment in the Status Quo – Deborah Piper
<br>23. Working It Out: Values, Perspectives, and Autobiography – John Sumser
<p><b>Part IV: Awayward Mobility</b>
<br>24. The Work of Professing (A Letter to Home) – Michael Schwalbe
<p>Afterword – C.L. Barney Dews
<br>About the Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>C. L. Barney Dews</b> is visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature in the English and Foreign Languages Department, University of West Florida.</P>
<P><b>Carolyn Leste Law</b> is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the University of Minnesota.
<p>They have also co-edited <i><a href="1376_reg.html" target="_top">Out in the South</a></i> (Temple).</P>
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