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About Barbara Jensen Barbara Jensen has been examining and teaching about working class cultures and classism for over thirty years as a university instructor, a speaker in a wide variety of settings, a scholar presenting at academic conferences, and as a leader of dozens of workshops on a variety of aspects of working class life, cultures and psychology. A founding mother and past president of the Working Class Studies Association, Barbara has been instrumental in building the field of working class studies in the United States. Author of Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America (as well as other publications) Barbara is a sought after keynote and plenary speaker as well as individual conference session speaker and workshop leader. She is known for her activist, independent scholarship and her moving and exciting presentations (which sometimes include live music).
Barbara cochaired the WCSA’s first conference at Macalaster College in 2007, and a previous conference at Metropolitan State University called Making Social Class Visible in 1999. She is a past president for the Working Class Studies Association.
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