"Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies." -Richard Ohmann CLASS POLITICS THE MOVEMENT FOR THE STUDENTS' RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANGUAGE (Second Edition) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field. Such histories, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s divorced the field from activist politics-washing out such work in the name of disciplinary identity. Class Politics shows the importance of political mass movements in the formation of Composition Studies-particularly...