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

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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.

读后感

这是一份从阶级分化角度呈现美国高等教育暗室与隐疾的社会学论著。它引人注目的第一点是题眼中“寒门子弟”与“精英大学”的概念搭配，以及作者安东尼·杰克大胆使用“背弃”（failing）一词，以彰显他势必通过本作对美国精英教育的体制性失败予以揭示的决心。本作改写于他在哈...  

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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

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.

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.

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。

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。

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。