Working-class rhetorics : contemporary memoirs and analyses

Introduction: Defining and defying common (mis)understandings of the working class / Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy -- Social class and sociolects / Irvin Peckham -- Becoming "gente educada" : navigating academia as a working-class, multiply-marginalized student / Christina V. Cedillo -- Rhetoric : from a community yet to arrive / José Manuel Cortez -- Five miles and a world away : a memoir / Edward J. Whitelock -- Feeling like an imposter at college / Nancy Mack -- (Un)Belonging in liminality : garage stories / Phil Bratta -- Book smart and street smart / Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier -- "Remember the Spartans" / William Thelin -- Honest work / Katherine Highfill -- Bodies in the world of labor : class, affect, and rhetoric in IWW's "What is what in the world of labor?" Poster / Phil Bratta -- Mind on heaven : working-class rhetorics in serpent-handling rituals of Southern Appalachia / Heather Palmer -- White bread as a working-class symbol / Kelli R. Gill -- "Put some flowers in the graveyard" : the gloomy fate of the working class in George A. Romero's Land of the dead / Philip L. Simpson -- Working class on the small screen / Sarah Attfield -- #ActorsWithDayJobs : Geoffrey Owens, job shaming, and the ideology of work / William DeGenaro -- (Literal) Self-exposure : celebrity "activism" during Covid-19 / Abby Graves -- Returning to Van Buren Street : a photographic essay / David Engen.