March 12, 2004
Working-Class Voices in Scholarly Discourse
From 1992 to 1999, I sold an eclectic range of literary and nonfiction books from a folding table on a sidewalk in Greenwich Village. One of the books was the novel A Bend in The River, by V.S. Naipaul, which begins: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." For years, I contemplated those words from a concrete space on a sidewalk that served as a public venue for enlightening debate and intellectual exchange. There, as a man
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