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

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用户评价

内容翔实 观点清晰 研究方法也不错

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。

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。

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。

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.