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.
发表于2025-04-10
The Privileged Poor 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
中国版的“寒门子弟上大学”的故事是:一个出生农村普通家庭的小孩,父母基本都是务农或者干一些体力活维持生计,父母小学或者初中毕业,好一点是有读过高中,上过大学的几乎是没有的。从小到大学习基本只能靠自己的自觉和努力,父母对成绩基本不怎么过问,只关心你在学校有没...
评分中国版的“寒门子弟上大学”的故事是:一个出生农村普通家庭的小孩,父母基本都是务农或者干一些体力活维持生计,父母小学或者初中毕业,好一点是有读过高中,上过大学的几乎是没有的。从小到大学习基本只能靠自己的自觉和努力,父母对成绩基本不怎么过问,只关心你在学校有没...
评分 评分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...
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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.
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。
评分内容翔实 观点清晰 研究方法也不错
评分接着paying for the party 往后写了一下好学校里的穷学生,一种比较幸运,通过各种项目在寄宿学校积累过一轮人力和文化资本,一种实惨,费劲来了以后各种文化冲击。有的时候觉得社会生活太复杂了,即使是穷人也会被同一个社会的不同项目给分裂成几个小群体,产生不一样的体验(作者顺嘴提了一下群体之间对于同一件事不同的道德界限)。观察一下,其实在留学生里也常见,只不过parachute kids吸引了更多的媒体注意力。终于,美国人终于意识到diversity不仅仅是肤色意义上的representative,也能注意到阶级伤害是真实的存在了。
评分上个月Dr. Jack 来学校的时候见到了本人,也见到了Vanessa现身说法,说这本书改变了她的人生。书本身不是没有问题,比如他自己承认的只关注了African Americans和latinos两个种族,其他群体被直接忽略,但是更多还是积极的内容。The stories of marginalized groups need to be told.
评分浅尝辄止,有点可惜。
The Privileged Poor 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书