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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.
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