Review: Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class, Eds. Genesea M. Carter and William H. Thelin by Laurie Cella

The field of working-class studies is particularly relevant in these times, when access to equitable education is under fire. With regard to race, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s (2016) essay in the New York Times Magazine raised our awareness regarding the institutionalized segregation that cripples our New York City schools. At the same time, scholars like Sherry Linkon (1999), author of Teaching Working-Class, are changing the way we think about working-class students in academia. Now is the perfect time for Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Classto arrive on the scene. It is the first edited collection to take on class in the writing classroom as its central project and allow the voices of working-class students to be its primary chorus