Whiteness and Class in Education

by John Preston

Book Overview

Like many of my friends I didn't really realise that I was working class until I went to university. Suddenly, what I thought as normal became subtly and not so subtly differentiated as I came into close contact with the middle classes. I had not known a time, though, when I hadn't been white, but I didn't really realise that I was white until I read David Roediger's (1991) book 'The Wages of Whiteness'. Through reading this work and others on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402061072
• ISBN13: 9781402061073
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"