Returning to Van Buren Street: A Photographic Essay

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A Photographic Essay

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Pages:: 216–232

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004501508_018

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Abstract

The essay is part memoir, part visual rhetoric, part collage of nostalgia and academic insights. The author, like many of us, is as much of his working-class family and neighborhood as he is an English professor. He admits, he usually says “teacher.” As he puts it in the essay, “I assume I’ll look arrogant if I say I’m a professor.” The aversion to the term “professor”? “That’s Van Buren Street talking some.” The chapter illustrates how closely class can be tied to place.

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Working-Class Rhetorics

Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses

Series: Critical Media Literacies Series, Volume: 9

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004501508

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 30 Aug 2021

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- Education
  - General
  - Culture & Education
- Social Sciences
  - General

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Introduction Defining and Defying Common (Mis)Understandings of the Working Class

Chapter 1 Social Class and Sociolects

Chapter 2 Becoming “Gente Educada”

Chapter 3 Rhetoric

Chapter 4 Five Miles and a World Away

Chapter 5 Feeling Like an Imposter at College

Chapter 6 (Un)Belonging in Liminality

Chapter 7 Book Smart AND Street Smart

Chapter 8 “Remember the Spartans”

Chapter 9 Honest Work

Chapter 10 Bodies in the World of Labor

Chapter 11 Mind on Heaven

Chapter 12 White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol

Chapter 13 “Put Some Flowers in the Graveyard”

Chapter 14 Working Class on the Small Screen

Chapter 15 #ActorsWithDayJobs

Chapter 16 (Literal) Self-Exposure

Chapter 17 Returning to Van Buren Street

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