Abstract
Communication scholars generally, and intercultural communication scholars more specifically, have been slow to examine socioeconomic status as a salient cultural issue. Growing up in subsidized low-income housing (i.e., the projects), the author has become increasingly aware of how class is inextricably linked to communication. He documents how his sense of self when it comes to class has not necessarily been transformed despite experiencing considerable shifts in economic earnings. Instead, it has resulted in a mindfulness of socioeconomic status that presents a constant psychological and communicative challenge. This chapter utilizes a layered account to share autoethnographic narratives (and “confessions”) designed to enhance greater understanding of the saliency of social class in the US.
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