Sunday, December 13, 2009

WCSU Library Collection is ready for checkout!

The Working Class Student Union is excited to announce that we have recieved our first shipment of books and DVDs for our library collection. Students can stop into the WCSU office, #3153 SAC, to review our selection and check out materials.

I found Without A Net to be a particularly wonderful book. The various essays are a great way to internalize the many faces of working class backgrounds and the diversity of voices is a nice change of pace from academic discussions.

Books:
• Class Matters, from The New York Times
• Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, edited by Michelle Tea
• Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, by Alfred Lubrano
• New Working Class Studies, edited by John Russo and Sherry Linkon
•Teaching Working Class, edited by Sherry Linkon
• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, by Dorothy Allison
• Feminism is for Everybody, by Bell Hooks

DVDs:
• Sicko
• Norma Rae
• Erin Brockovich

3 comments:

andreas.erich.kemper@gmail.com said...

Greetings from Germany!

We also have a small library in our department for working class students in Muenster/Germany. I like the us-american literature and we have also Limbo, Without a net, and Class matters in our library (Class matters from the NYT and Class matters from bell hooks).

Best
Andreas

Kristina Kleinschmidt - WCSU Communication Director said...

Hello!

Thanks for your most. Maybe your students would be interested in the work of Michael Perry? He is from northern Wisconsin and sort of a hometown hero in literary circles around here. His website is sneezingcow.com. It's nothing scholarly, just great writing from a rural Wisconsin working class point of view. Population 485 is one of my favorites ever.

-Heidi

Kristina Kleinschmidt - WCSU Communication Director said...

Thanks for your (post)!