Working class academics.

[Deicide]

I'm trying to find professors, etc. from working class backgrounds.

[Fawkes]

Howard Zinn, bell hooks, Emma Goldman

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Howard Zinn, bell hooks, Emma Goldman

People's History of the United States made me decide to major in history.

[Sankara1983]

Theodore W. Allen and Lenni Brenner come to mind.

[Hiero]

I'm trying to find professors, etc. from working class backgrounds.

Pierre Bourdieu. Born Pierre Felix Bourdieu in Denguin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denguin) (Pyrénées-Atlantiques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques)), in southern France on 1 August 1930, to a postal worker and his wife. Occitan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language) was the language spoken at home. He married Marie-Claire Brizard in 1962; the couple had three sons, Jérôme, Emmanuel (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emmanuel_Bourdieu&action=edit&redlink=1) and Laurent.

He spans anthropology, sociology and social/cultural theory. His first enthnography was on Kayble in Algeria. He then moved on to provide some of the most interesting and relevent theories like habitus, symbolic violence, doxa are some examples.