Literature, Class, and Culture is the latest volume in the Literature and Culture Series—a series devoted to presenting thoughtful and diverse approaches to the teaching of literature.

Literature, Class, and Culture is a thematic literature anthology that focuses on the consideration of class in "classless" America. Through stories, poems, songs, and essays, these selections—from Edith Whorton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, John Cheever, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Toni Cade Bambara, Sholem Asch, Ernesto Galarza, Dorothy Allison, and others—vividly illustrate the meaning and impact of social class in the everyday lives of all kinds of people—at work, at play, mixing, disputing, interacting, talking, and thinking.