Reflections from the wrong side of the tracks : class, identity, and the working class experience in academe / edited by Stephen L. Muzzatti and C. Vincent Samarco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Slippin' through the cracks : working-class academics challenge the meritocracy. Happy accidents : the unofficial story of how I became an academic / Jennifer Beech -- Working it out / Michael Presdee -- Personal, professional, and political paths to the study of the crimes of the powerful / David Kauzlarich -- A stranger to paradise : working-class graduate in the culture of academia / Dawn Rothe -- Can a working-class girl have roots and wings? White trash in the ivory tower / Donna Selman-Killingbeck -- Working class need not apply : job hunting, job interviews, and the working-class experience in academia / Stephen L. Muzzatti and C. Vincent Samarco -- II. Attacked from within and without : working-class academics and initial confrontations with academe. Making class matter : my life as a semi-earhole / Donna LeCourt -- White, working class, and feminist : working within the master's house and finding home again / Julie Ann Harms Cannon -- "Gimme that!" : The working-class student meets the working-class subject / William J. Macauley Jr. -- Critique of domination : the pain, praxis, and polemics of working-class consciousness in academia / Daniel D. Martin -- Working-class values and life in academe : examining the dissonance / Janelle L. Wilson -- III. Stoking the fires of resistance : longtime working-class academics speak. Teaching from the wrong side of the tracks : challenging privilege and authority in the classroom / Kent Sandstrom -- The meaning of class differences in the academic world / Bonnie Berry -- Trajectory and transformation of a working-class girl into an upper-middle-class associate dean / Phyllis L. Baker -- Making the grade : impostors in the ivory tower / Lyn Huxford -- An Unwashed's knowledge of archaeology : class and merit in academic placement / Michael J. Shott -- Class enriching the classroom : the "radical" as rooted pedagogic strengths / Livy A. Visano.