I will be out of the office starting 06/04/2007 and will not return until 06/05/2007. I will respond to your message upon my return. Have a great day!...
Chuck et al. This is to me another piece of evidence for the struggle to control education and the power that it has to indoctrinate. "If schools are not...
An interesting take on defining class... I saw this checklist on Facebook. You have a: [] Mother [] Father [] Step-Father [] Step-mother [] Step/half-siblings ...
I will be out of the office starting 06/15/2007 and will not return until 06/30/2007. Nicole Long is no longer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Please...
While doing my summer reading I came across this statement. I never really thought about where whiteness came from, and this makes a great deal of sense to me....
Reading this over after church this morning I realized that my juxtaposition of Republicans and Nazis could be misconstrued. Nearly every group has used...
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html This was reported in the chronicle this morning. Very interesting. I am definitely facebook as is my...
Hi all~ This month in About Campus, there is a nice piece about the need to acknowledge social class among students from a diversity standpoint. There is also...
I am having a good time reading all of the books on class that I ordered and am learning loads on new perspectives. The Working Class Majority by Zweig is...
Well, I have had a busy summer reading all of the books on Social Class that I bought this spring with my Holmstedt money. I was really enjoying the reading...
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume7.php Telling Tales of Oppression and Dysfunction: Narratives of Class Identity Reformation Allison L....
Lubrano, Alfred. (2003) Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. He talks about what he calls "straddlers" w/c people moving into white-collar...
https://umconnect.umn.edu/didyouknow/ This is the 'Shift Happens' video While I am sure some of you have seen this it is worth seeing again. It is more about...
Did you finish this quiz with your students? I'd love to see it if you're willing to share it. I'm blogging about classism in the Religious Society of Friends ...
Hi, Someone from this group who works at George School tried to post an anonymous post to my blog. For the record, my blog comments are moderated and I don't...
Hi: I teach sociology at a community college in Chicago. Most of my students are working class/lower middle class, although some come from privilege and others...
Well, it has been an interesting day. I got some e-mail messages this morning about the experience "take a step" that we developed (Barratt, Lurker, Huck,...
Will (and all), I was just reading through some of these when your email came through! (I do blog searches on social class). HereĀ¹s a particularly interesting...
I just posted a short reply and would encourage others to participate in the dialog. I am going to add some text today to my collection that helps with this...
If you google "privilege meme" you will learn a lot about what people think about social class. Jeanne Burns, a member here, took an experience by Barratt,...
I have to say that the privilege meme showed up on a blog I read regularly and that's how I ended up here. I teach at an urban community college and I think...
I first heard about the meme when I started getting hate mail, and now when I track its passage (using google search for blogs) I find thoughtful material. It...
I gave a presentation at the NASPA multicultural institute in Miami this past December and have been stimulated to collect my thinking about class into writing...
http://educationandclass.com/2008/05/08/finding-the-working-class-amusing/ Thanks to Jane VanGalen for this one. If it were not so sad it would be amusing. ...
