The Privileged Poor

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

目录信息

Abbreviations
Introduction: Can Poor Students Be Privileged?
1. “Come with Me to Italy!”
2. “Can You Sign Your Book for Me?”
3. “I, Too, Am Hungry”
Conclusion: Beyond Access
Appendix
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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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...  

哈佛，MIT，斯坦福........这些金光闪闪的名字，任谁收到这类精英大学的录取通知书不是心中狂喜呢？美国的精英大学，被誉为拥有全世界最好通识教育最高学府，是全世界学子心之所往的圣地，多少家庭为了孩子能进入这类大学一掷千金，多少孩子为了自己的梦想卷到内伤。 美国大学...  

看完后发现我是双重贫困生，我是一路从农村小学到农村高中上来的，只不过我读的不是精英大学。双重贫困生体现在：1：office hours 期间不会去寻找老师，除非学业迫不得已。我读大学期间我们也有office hours，然而我一次都没有去过，尽管我学习还可以。 我和书里的双重贫困生一...  

看完后发现我是双重贫困生，我是一路从农村小学到农村高中上来的，只不过我读的不是精英大学。双重贫困生体现在：1：office hours 期间不会去寻找老师，除非学业迫不得已。我读大学期间我们也有office hours，然而我一次都没有去过，尽管我学习还可以。 我和书里的双重贫困生一...  

看完后发现我是双重贫困生，我是一路从农村小学到农村高中上来的，只不过我读的不是精英大学。双重贫困生体现在：1：office hours 期间不会去寻找老师，除非学业迫不得已。我读大学期间我们也有office hours，然而我一次都没有去过，尽管我学习还可以。 我和书里的双重贫困生一...  

用户评价

很喜欢作者对于工薪甚至贫困阶层的孩子在精英大学生活的探讨，话说作者本科就读的Amherst College 就在母校旁边，每次去都能感受到扑面而来的中上层白人精英主义的气息... 最欣赏的片段莫过于doubly disadvantaged的学生对于office hour的恐惧和对于教授的deferrance. 想着自己本科刚来某文理学院的时候常常震惊于周围美国同学和教授在办公室自如地分享八卦，而我却在担心她会不会占用了宝贵的office hour时间，不敢和教授聊学术之外的生活，生怕浪费了他们的时间。还好感谢本科的导师们，都went out of their way to help, 也算某种程度上弥补了学生们自身社会阶级的cultural capital的gap吧

https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/the-privileged-poor/

就讲讲故事。没什么洞见。

这种讲美国学生cultural capital 和精英学校运作规则理解的书真是读一本等于读全部……感觉主旨的那些 cultural capital - ease，中产非中产文化资本的差别，别人都写过了……抄录一点最后政策建议：高中培育有利于上大学的文化，大学阶段为学生提供更多的生活补助，多提供制度性的学生和老师接触的机会，把unspoken rules明确化，等等。

浅尝辄止，有点可惜。