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

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...  

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...  

近几年，常有人说“寒门再难出贵子”，没想到这种情况在美国同样常见。 美国精英大学以富人家庭的孩子为主，根据家庭收入和高中时期的经历，可以划分为“家庭富裕且就读过精英高中的学生”(第一类)、“出身寒门但就读过精英高中的学生”(第二类)和“出身寒门且没读过精英高中的...  

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...  

用户评价

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

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。

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。

浅尝辄止，有点可惜。

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。