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Julie Withers

Julie Withers

About Julie Withers

Julie Garza-Withers is an award-winning community college sociology instructor and organizational diversity consultant who works with individuals and groups to facilitate collaborative solutions to gender, race, and class-based conflicts.

Money Changes Everything: The Ascent of Walter White

October 2, 2013 by Julie Withers Leave a Comment

“I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it, and I was alive.” –W.W. I had to wait until the finale of “Breaking Bad” but at last, Walter White admitted that he was in to the meth cooking for the money. I’ve been frustrated since season 3, by that time the […]

Filed Under: Politics and Class

Poem: White Trash Beaner (to my 11-year-old confused self)

May 16, 2013 by Julie Withers Leave a Comment

Grama says I’m Indian. Mama says my dad was “a Mexican” and that if he really loved me like “Mexican daddies do” he woulda found me by now. Grama says we’re Indian, mama says ‘no’. Sis calls me a “wetback” and a “beaner” (“mom said it all the time”). Brother teases me about getting pregnant […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Poverty, Race and Class Tagged With: classism, poverty, race and class, racism

Silver Linings Playbook: Class themes in Oscar nominees #3

February 23, 2013 by Julie Withers 1 Comment

Movies about mental illness are a favorite of the Oscars. The nominees are often serious affairs with sad endings and a key point: it sucks to have a mental illness. Underlying that key point is the idea that having a mental illness creates an outsider status of not being normal where one lacks access to […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Class Themes in Film and Fiction, Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: downward mobility, mental illness

Classism in Academia

September 19, 2012 by Julie Withers 23 Comments

A little over two years ago, a student called me a ‘cunt’ in front of 38 other students. My academic employer did little to protect me and allowed a local, “progressive” paper to attack me in a newspaper/Internet article. I believe this had everything to do with my being a popular but adjunct, community college […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Workplace classism Tagged With: academia, blaming the victim, classism, working class

How working at a community college is like working retail

October 6, 2011 by Julie Withers 6 Comments

Expectations are a pain in the ass. There’s an old saying, “plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.” Yep I did it, planted and am now disappointed. I teach Sociology at a rural community college; I love teaching, but I don’t love that adjunct teachers like me are temporary, at-will employees. Who knew that the working […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education Tagged With: adjunct professors, low-wage jobs

Why don’t schools do more to stop bullying?

November 18, 2010 by Julie Withers 59 Comments

I have been reading (I am sure you have too) about the many cases of bullying and the awful consequences of being a target for bullies. Kids and young adults committing suicide, suffering chronic depression, choosing to be home-schooled, or quitting school altogether: there’s no doubt that being bullied negatively shifts how a person experiences […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: bullying, kids

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