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Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America

reviewed by Marybeth Gasman � 2004

Title: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America
Author(s): Vivyan Campbell Adair & Sandra L. Dahlberg (Editors)
Publisher: Temple University Press, Philadelphia
ISBN: 1592130224, Pages: 269, Year: 2003
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Like the editors and authors of Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America, I too grew up in a family troubled by financial problems.� My parents struggled to raise ten children in a small, rural town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.� Despite my mother�s encouragement to attend college, my parents knew very little about the college experience, financial aid, which institutions were prestigious, etc.� Although the school I chose�a small private college about 100 miles from home�was probably not the best choice in all respects, it was there that I was mentored and encouraged to attend graduate school.� Positive role models and individuals who opposed class and gender discrimination helped me to overcome the steep learning curve I faced because of my family background. � Reading Reclaiming Class forced me to think about my own background, my mother�s, and that of my students.� Regardless of socio-economic status, I think that this book will move the reader to consider and reconsider his or... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 2, 2004, p. 274-276
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11191, Date Accessed: 10/21/2017 12:01:12 PM

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Marybeth Gasman University of Pennsylvania E-mail Author MARYBETH GASMAN an assistant professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent publications include Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Behind the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow (with Patrick J. Gilpin) published by SUNY Press, 2003 and ��A Word for Every Occasion: Appeals by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to White Donors on Behalf of the United Negro College Fund,�� published in the History of Higher Education Annual, 2002.

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