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082 0 _a305.50973
100 1 _aCollins, Chuck.
245 1 0 _aClass Lives :
_bStories from Across Our Economic Divide.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2015.
300 _a1 online resource (241 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aA Class Action Book Series
505 0 _aClass 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.
520 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aIntergroup relations - United States.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aLadd, Jennifer.
700 1 _aSeider, Maynard.
700 1 _aYeskel, Felice.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aCollins, Chuck
_tClass Lives
_dIthaca : Cornell University Press,c2014
_z9780801479656
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 2 _aA Class Action Book Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138680
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