Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America

Part I: Making the Personal Political: The Stories of Capitalism.-

Chapter 1. 'Teaching Naked' in Late Capitalism: Personal Narratives and Classroom Self-Disclosure as Pedagogical Tools.-
Chapter 2. Untold Stories: Bringing Class into the Classroom.-
Chapter 3. 'Self-Made' Success on the Private Dole: An Illustration of the Reproduction of Capitals.-
Chapter 4. Financial Stumbles, Consumer Bankruptcy, and the Sociological Imagination.-
Part II: Making Marxist Theory Real.-
Chapter 5. Capitalism 101: Teaching First-Year Students How to View the Social World through the Lens of Marxist Theory.-
Chapter 6. Teaching Global Inequality through the World of Commodities.-
Chapter 7. Radical Pedagogical Homesteading: Returning the 'Species' to Our 'Being'.-
Chapter 8. Socialist Grading.-
Part III: Applied Pedagogical Strategies for Course Development.-
Chapter 9. Overcoming Students' Fear: Scaffolding to Teach "Money and Society".-
Chapter 10. Capitalism in the Classroom: Confronting the Invisibility of Class Inequality.-
Chapter 11. Experiencing the Outcomes of Economic Inequality in the Day-to-Day Workings of the Classroom.-
Chapter 12. Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America using Resources from the Federal Government.-
Chapter 13. Teaching Social Inequality through Analysis of Hidden Assumptions in Non-Academic Publications.-
Chapter 14. Participatory Action Research as Problem-Centered Learning: A class study of rural poverty, housing, and environmental justice.-
Chapter 15. Inequality and Violence.-
Part IV: Intersections: Global and Local.-
Chapter 16. Intersectional Marginalities in Rural Teacher Preparation: Teaching beyond "what I am able to see visibly".-
Chapter 17. Economic Inequality and Race: Shifting the Narrative of "No, It can't be that bad.- Chapter 18. Irreversible Punishment: Teaching about Inequalities in Capital Punishment.-
Chapter 19. Making Room for a Postcolonial Critique in the Introductory STS Curriculum.-
Chapter 20. Utilizing Social Science Theories, Findings, and Comparative Analyses to Create a Framework for Understanding Economic Inequality.-
Part V: Capitalism and Higher Education: Constraints and Opportunities.-
Chapter 21. Capitalism and the Cost of Textbooks: the Possibilities of Open Source Materials.-
Chapter 22. Writing Against Ideology: Preparing Students to Reclaim Writing as Critical Practice.-
Chapter 23. Lessons on Inequality and Capitalism: Perspectives from a Community College.-
Chapter 24. Capitalism, Racism, and the Neoliberal University: The Case of the University of Missouri (Mizzou).-
Chapter 25. Against the "Institutional Real": The Structural and Cultural Foundations of Corporate Higher Education and the Challenge to Developing Politically Engaged Students.