In this chapter May Ngo discusses her background as a child of Vietnamese bakers in Sydney and how having a working-class background has influenced what she does now at university.

The 'C' word appears at page 20, following the introduction to this book Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class edited by Dee Michell, Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Verity Archer.  Bread and Roses is available to purchase at Sense Publishers (link below)