Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Intersections -- Organization -- Apology -- 2. Social Class -- Absence of Class -- Ontology of Class -- Objectivity of Class -- 3. Language, Class, and Codes -- Working-Class English -- Bernstein's Analysis of Class Codes -- Objections to Bernstein -- Working-Class Students' Rights to Their Own Language -- Middle-Class English and Freshman Composition -- 4. Critical Thinking -- Historicizing Critical Thinking -- Cognitive Strand -- Social Strand -- 5. Arguing -- Social Class and Argument -- 6. Cultural Studies and Composition -- Central Contradictions -- False Consciousness -- Prescribing Critical Thinking -- 7. The Teachers -- Critical Thinking in English 102 -- Difference and Diversity -- Allodoxia: Putting the Blame Elsewhere -- 8. The Professors -- Hubris or Humility -- Good Practice -- 9. Going West -- Making a Difference -- References -- Index -- About the Author.