Class Lives : Stories from Across Our Economic Divide.

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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.