Social Class Voices: Student Stories from the University of Michigan Bicentennial
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Table of Contents
- Praise for Social Class Voices
- Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Social Class at Michigan
- I Working Poor
- Feeling Down on My Way Up
- Just Another Boy from the “Hood”
- Just Getting By
- Why Is My Cheese Immortal?
- II Working Class
- Work Boots and Books
- What Do You Do in Ann Arbor?
- Seeking Stability
- Between Two Worlds Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Working Class
- Suppers and Weared Its
- Not My Bird: Cross Class or No Class?
- The Places I’ve Been and the Places I’ll Never Go
- III Middle Class
- Keeping Scores: Personal Prose about Social Class Experiences through Popular Poetry
- What’s the Damage?
- Laugh and Learn
- Learning by Interacting
- The Hidden Influence
- Resiliency
- Looking Both Ways: Reflections from the Middle Class
- My Class Experience: A Tale of Not Knowing Where I Belong
- How Did I Get Here?
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Money, Cars, and Clothes: Things We Place Importance On*
- Living in Limbo: Two Worlds Collide
- The Invisible Problem without a Name
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Stuck in the Middle
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How Social Class Influenced My Education
- IV Upper-Middle Class
- Being Upper-Middle Class
- “Just Because They Show Money Doesn’t Mean They Have Money”: Realizing Social Class
- Things Aren’t Always as They Seem
- Why We Are the People We Are
- The Privilege of Certainty: Want versus Need
- Black in the Bubble
- Material Girl
- If You Do the Best You Can
- Facts and Feelings of the Upper-Middle Class
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Sitting on the Social Ladder, Looking Up and Down
- V Upper Class
- Not-So Blissful Ignorance: A Self-Examination
- Growing Up Rich, but Not Knowing It
- A Case for Cross-Class Dialogue
- VI Mixed Class
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Mutt: Mixed Class and Upwardly Mobile
- A Journey to Stability: Through the Infallible Strength of Family
- A Transnational Dilemma: A Mixed-Class Paradox
- Moving through Classes
- The Problem with Compartmentalizing
- Afterword: Reflections on Teaching Social Class
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Editors’ and Contributors’ Bios
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Appendix: Social Class Essay Guidelines
