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

本应很快读完的一本书 这次战线拉的有点长 关于这本寒门子弟上大学这本书，是有一天刷到自己比较欣赏的一位知识博主推荐了这本书，博主在过程中有共情的阐述当年自己有机会做交换去到了哈佛大学，在这样顶尖的学习殿堂，遇到了非常多优秀的精英群体，自己虽出身在国内的中产阶...  

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用户评价

内容翔实 观点清晰 研究方法也不错

文字没的说。第三章作为留学生读着读着也很容易共情。第二章看到一个特别像我自己做TA的一个例子，有点愤怒。决定放进本科生intro syllabus

文字没的说。第三章作为留学生读着读着也很容易共情。第二章看到一个特别像我自己做TA的一个例子，有点愤怒。决定放进本科生intro syllabus

作者是穷学生出身，成为学者之后研究穷学生怎样能更好适应精英大学的生活，以求让更多的穷学生像他一样成功实现阶级跃迁，真的很empowering。本书很好读，作者很有逻辑地把学生的testimony串起来了。"Access is not inclusion"。第三章真是令人震惊，鼓励穷学生做宿舍清洁工来赚钱这种政策太智障了，还好有作者这种学者让弱势群体得以发声，就这点就值得力荐。本书结论不是鼓励更多穷学生读私校成为privileged poor，而是鼓励更多公校能赋权。最后的attachments也很有意思，作者留白了很多值得研究的地方，比如亚裔完全不在研究样本里。从社达社会出来的学生的cultural shock和美国穷学生居然是差不多的，比如我看到office hours那一点感到很有共鸣。

对于上层社会而言，阶级是比肤色和种族更为直观的分界线。