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 --...

This thesis is concerned with a possible answer to the question of why we should care about inequality: children. A child can no less choose its parents than it can choose its gender or ethnicity. One cannot fault a child for their choice of school, lack of resources or absence of role models....