AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

A Class Traitor in Academe

Tenured and solidly middle class, a professor seldom feels he is giving anything back to his working-class roots

By THOMAS H. BENTON

It's easy to find books on race and gender in academic life, but only a handful focus on social class.

I know of four. They are all essay collections that came to me like life preservers when...

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