Community Colleges and First-Generation Students examines a community college writing classroom through ten students from diverse linguistic, ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds. Students are introduced to a version of academic discourse that challenges their identities and visions of the future.

1. Intersecting Place, Purpose, and Practice: A Community College Context
2. Identities: A Context of Multiplicity
3. Linguistic Ideologies
4. Institutionalized Identities
5. Classroom Discourse
6. Student Voices
7. Homogenizing Identities
8. A Call To Action: What We Say and What We Do