Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Class Action: An organization based in Hadley, MA that raises awareness, facilitates cross-class dialogue, supports cross-class alliances, and works with others to promote economic justice. Their web site includes a wide range of useful resources and links, as well as a calendar of their workshops and other events.
Class Matters: This New York Times series of articles provides an analysis of how Americans see class today, how class is defined, and how class affects people. This site is rich with information, graphics, and links to each of the articles.
Cultural Diversity Resources: Classism (from the University of Wisconsin's College of Education and Professional Studies educator resources site): A collection of related web resources/links.
Uncovering Classism: A Checklist for Organizations (from Workforce Development Group): A wonderful article by Indra Lahiri and Kimberlee Jensen that provides insights and recommendations about how to uncover hidden class bias and classism in organizations.
Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty: An overview of the hidden rules of poverty by Ruby Payne, from Instructional Leader (IX.2 March 1996).
United for a Fair Economy, a national, independent, nonpartisan, non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart
Working Class/Poverty Class Academics: This site provides support and information regarding the hurdles, joys, sorrows, confusions, etc. working- and poverty-class academics face in their pursuit and practice of higher education. It includes "discussions on 'coming-out" in the classroom,' advice to graduate students navigating the academic maze, support when friends and family don't understand what we do, research, film, culture, and a myriad of other topics pertinent to our experience.
Youngstown State Center for Working Class Studies: The first center of its kind in the United States devoted to the study of working-class life and culture. The CWCS creates social spaces for civic and academic conversations on working-class life and culture and its intersections with race, gender, and sexuality and serves as a clearinghouse for information on working-class culture, issues, and pedagogy. Their web site is rich with resources and information.
The National Center for Educational Statistics web site publishes articles that address the economics of education in various ways, including: How Families of Low- and Middle-Income Undergraduates Pay for College by Susan P. Choy and Ali M. Berker and Debt Burden Four Years Later by Susan Choy.
