Probably it is a heaping dollop of pride that urges me to write this essay. And part of me doesn't want to rehash that ugliness, that dyspepsia it was exhausting. In the conclusion to The Trouble with Diversity, Michaels reveals that, when he was working on the book, hashing out his ideas, he ruined a lot of dinner parties with friends and colleagues. According to the Congressional Research Service, in 2012, a household fell into that quintile at just a little over a pre-tax income of $100,000 (Elwell 2). Would that more like him-tenured university professors-would do so, acknowledge her or his own class position! And it doesn't take $250,000 to fall into the upper quintile of American households. (I do not know if he succeeded in this ambition.) He also confesses that he is not a member of the American middle class he is a member of the American upper middle class (191). With a household income of about $250,000 he was almost "into the top 1 percent" and his hope was that "the money earned through writing this book will push him over the line-top 1 percent!" (192). In 2006, Holt Paperbacks published Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble with Diversity, a book that covers some of the same territory and aimed at and reached a larger audience! Michaels cheekily confesses that although he makes $175,000 per year teaching at the University of Illinois, Chicago-a salary that in 2006 put him in the top three percent of the American population-"he wants more" (191). In 2000, the University of Michigan Press published my Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars. I Was So Right About That: Social Class and the Academy Sharon O'Dair Rhizomes » Issue 27 (2014) » Sharon O'Dair
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