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Blue-Collar Brilliance MIKE ROSE Fy My motuer, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie), shaped her adult “yt e pi identity as a waitress_in coffee shops and family restaurants. When | was growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, my. father and I would occasionally hang out at the restaurant until her shift ended, and then we'd ride the bus home with her. Sometimes she worked the register and the counter, and we sat there; when she waited booths and tables, we found a booth in the back where the waitresses took their breaks. There wasn’t much for a,child to do at the restaurants, and so as the hours stretched out, I watched the cooks and waitresses and listened to what they said. At mealtimes, the pace of the kitchen staff and the din from customers picked up. Weaving in and out around the room, waitresses warned behind you in. Mike Rost isa professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education ang Information Studies, He is well known for his writing on issue literacy, including the bocks Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Underprepared (1989) and Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education (2012). He also coedired a collection of essays, Public Education Under Siege (2014). of This article originally appeared in 2009 in the American Scholar, a magazine published by the Zhi Seta Kappa Society. [377] ge \ bgt \ \ \S