Class
different discourses for different folks
Lots of folks are talking about their old high school friends, classmates, and even enemies friending them on Facebook. One of my old high school friends recently friended me, after we hadn’t talked in five years (since our five year class reunion). The other day, while I was away from my computer, he instant messages [...]
post election thoughts: morning in America
cross-posted
As I listened to NPR this morning, I heard Representative Lewis’s acceptance speech, where he talked about Obama’s win, rather than his own, and Jesse Jackson’s reaction as well. I teared up a little, thinking about how monumental this election is being seen as. I wonder what the effects will be. I think it’s a [...]
Shepard: Teaching “The Renaissance” (1998)
Shepard discusses his experiences as a gay son of a Midwestern farmer studying and teaching Renaissance literature. He focuses on the class aspects of the literature, often choosing cultural artifacts over “art,” a distinction he admits is artificial (217). He discusses at length teaching Robinson Crusoe, and his students’ love of the book for it’s [...]
the class divide: blue-collar roots, academic dreams
Dawn writes about her discomfort in academia, as she reads The Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents, a book that seems to have similar threads to Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. Dawn writes:
Nowhere is it [the class divide] more apparent than in higher education. This is the realm of the priviledged. For those [...]
