“…Along with the just-cited quantitative studies, still other researchers have assembled an impressive body of qualitative literature showing how socioeconomic backgrounds differentiate WCAs from their higher born colleagues. A sampling of these works includes Strangers in Paradise (Ryan & Sackrey, 1984), This Fine Place So Far From Home (Dews & Law, 1995), Coming to Class: Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers (Shepard, McMillan, & Tate, 1998), Reclaiming Class (Adair & Dahlberg, 2003), and Resilience: Queer Professors From the Working Class (Oldfield & Johnson, 2008). The two themes running through these texts are how the authors recall (a) the countless socioeconomic status-based hardships and prejudices they faced before, during, and after college and (b) how their social-class origins still influence their thoughts and actions as researchers, educators, and colleagues.…”