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Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It
By
Lennard J. Davis
Lennard J. Davis
Lennard J. Davis is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago and the author of many books, including
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5997-4
Publication date:
2024
The author provides a personal account of his life, particularly his intersections with middle- and upper-class people as he moved from the Bronx to Columbia University. And then his long struggle for tenure highlights the problems that first-generation students and faculty members have with negotiating the complex, class-linked structure of academic life.
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