William Pelz proposed that “most college teachers are proudly and boastfully anti-working class. If the civil rights movement, the black empowerment movement, and the women’s movement have created more self-consciousness about open expressions of racism and sexism, the typical professor still thinks nothing is wrong with being anti-working class. The same person who would never use the word girl to refer to an adult female openly rails against ‘blue-collar slobs’” (Dews and Law 1995, 281).
