Allison Hurst - “Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and

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Allison L. Hurst
Ashley Rondini, Bedelia Richards-Dowden, Nicolas Simon, Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experiences of First-Generation College Students, Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books, 2018

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Hurst, A. L. (2018). “Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents.” In A. Rondini, B. Richards-Dowden, & N. Simon (Eds.), Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experiences of First-Generation College Students. Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books.

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Hurst, Allison L. “‘Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents.’” In Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experiences of First-Generation College Students, edited by Ashley Rondini, Bedelia Richards-Dowden, and Nicolas Simon. Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books, 2018.

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Hurst, Allison L. “‘Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents.’” Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experiences of First-Generation College Students, edited by Ashley Rondini et al., Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books, 2018.

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@inbook{allison2018a,
  title = {“Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents”},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books},
  author = {Hurst, Allison L.},
  editor = {Rondini, Ashley and Richards-Dowden, Bedelia and Simon, Nicolas},
  booktitle = {Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experiences of First-Generation College Students}
}

I am not the first to point out that the culture of college is often perceived as markedly different from home cultures for many first-generation, low-income. and working-class college students. There is actually a long history of such studies.... My own small contribution to this literature is to note that working-class students make choices when confronted with opposing class cultures. That is what this chapter is all about. All working-class students recognize (and most speak in) the discourse of loyalty and betrayal. Too often material success and social prestige for working-class persons is premised on betrayal of one's class. Put differently, our meritocratic system rewards individual strivers, not collective loyalists. Working-class college students must learn to navigate the opposing cultures of home and school. They sometimes feel they must choose between assimilation and resistance.