Diversity, Discourse, and the Working Class Student


	Diversity, Discourse, and the Working Class Student

dmegivern

11-13-2007 4:56 PM

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academia, working.class, diversity, college

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11-19-2007 2:11 PM

kmcolo

Ohhh. You actually bring up that dirty word, class. Don't you know that there is no class system in the U.S.? We just have this HUGE spectrum of middle class.

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