Contents: The seams that stood all the changes: keeping it together in academia / D. Kendig -- You ain’t never gonna be better than me / C. Rothe -- The uses of denial, or the psychology of class / G. Gorselesky -- Living and learning in the balance / From white trash to white collar / S. Robideaux -- Another cup / L. Johnson Black -- "A circle" or, strangely, a life in school / P. Capel Swartz -- The ever present past / N. Atkinson -- Red necks, blue collars and schooling / T.M. Welford -- A waitress, a hairdresser and their daughters who became professors / C. Whitson & R. Christopher -- Literacy and the quality of life / A. Rosati -- Army green and t he university: the after life of war wounds / L. Amy -- I know what to look for / K. Pittman -- Fragments/I (re)member / S. Begert -- Speaking in tongues: the complications of difference, loyalty, and entitlement in an academic life / J. Grace.

Publisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2005

Description: xxii, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Clarion University Faculty Publication (Kathleen A. Welsch, 1997)