The Privileged Poor

Anthony Abraham Jack, a native of Miami, received a scholarship to attend Gulliver Preparatory School, an elite private high school in South Florida. He went on to receive degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Anthony Abraham Jack

页数:288

出版时间:2019-3-1

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674976894

Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.

The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors―and their coffers―to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.

Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.

If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages―advice we cannot afford to ignore.

读后感

《寒门子弟上大学》The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 早上写完毕设论文的一部分，中午不务正业但迫不及待地看起了这本书。这本书让我自然而然地想起了《优秀的绵羊》，同样是对于精英大学教育的批判只不过方面不同，同样文字吸引我...  

这本书写的是美国精英名校中的贫困大学生，因为涉及到阶层之类的敏感字眼，所以中国人非常有共鸣，心有戚戚。 但这种共鸣是错误的幻觉。 举个例子，电影Joker，有独身公寓，吃喝不愁，还有心理医生免费看。 这种人叫「活得不好」？ 同理，这本书中的贫困生，确实经济条件不富裕...  

用户评价

3星半其实 现在美国这种书籍有一个普遍毛病就是写作很散 而且后面比较重复 不过他给出的视角非常值得参考。我知道会有人认为让寒门子弟半工半读是”天将降大任“，但不能忽视的是现代人心理健康的重要性。这个问题是恶毒”凤凰男“和”做题家“的一体两面。给他们超越原生家庭的机会，而不是居高临下认为自己施舍了高等教育的机会，是非常重要的。

就讲讲故事。没什么洞见。

论文看多了不是很习惯这种目录结构了，标题上直接引用了participator的话，是吸引人的，但是看不出学术脉络会感到无所适从。以不平等视角进入精英大学，探讨穷人困境的研究可谓卷帙浩繁，the Poor的心酸艰难基本上都能想象得到。这本比较有创新的地方在于，按照高中学校的定位和与大学接轨的程度从中划分出了两个类别：PP（Privileged Poor）和DD（Doubly Disadvantage），甚至Uni也在官方话语中承认并使用这两个概念。访谈对象很完备，学生、管理者和教授都涉及到，看到DD对于Office hour的畏惧特别有共鸣，可能直到现在我都还是觉得那是一种打扰，心理负担很重。看完学校的勤工助学项目、带有歧视的文化援助项目、春假餐厅关门实在是大跌眼镜，震惊。

不知道为啥，这种书总有一种一眼看到头的感觉，特权那本也是。

从一个很具体的人群切入，通过三组在精英大学来自不同阶级背景的学生的比较，非常具体又条理清楚的看到现在的学校制度下，贫困学生所经历的困境。很多意在帮助他们的措施也可能是进一步强化差异，没有考虑到心理层面带给学生的感受。阶级和教育题材书籍中的又一块砖。