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01/31/2003 Archived Entry: "Class Issues"

For all those interested in the texts required for English 105: Class Matters, here they are.

Texts:
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Carolyn Chute, The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Media:
James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

Essays/Handouts:
Rob Rosenthal, Homeless in Paradise
Richard Greenwald and Elizabeth Grant, "Border Crossings: Working-Class Encounters in Higher Education"
Anne Aronson, "Downward Mobility and the Writing of Nontraditional Students"
Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto
Gael Sweeney, "The King of White Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess"
Tillie Olsen, "I Want You Women Up North to Know"
Studs Terkel, from Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression