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.
##接著paying for the party 往後寫瞭一下好學校裏的窮學生,一種比較幸運,通過各種項目在寄宿學校積纍過一輪人力和文化資本,一種實慘,費勁來瞭以後各種文化衝擊。有的時候覺得社會生活太復雜瞭,即使是窮人也會被同一個社會的不同項目給分裂成幾個小群體,産生不一樣的體驗(作者順嘴提瞭一下群體之間對於同一件事不同的道德界限)。觀察一下,其實在留學生裏也常見,隻不過parachute kids吸引瞭更多的媒體注意力。終於,美國人終於意識到diversity不僅僅是膚色意義上的representative,也能注意到階級傷害是真實的存在瞭。
評分##論文看多瞭不是很習慣這種目錄結構瞭,標題上直接引用瞭participator的話,是吸引人的,但是看不齣學術脈絡會感到無所適從。以不平等視角進入精英大學,探討窮人睏境的研究可謂捲帙浩繁,the Poor的心酸艱難基本上都能想象得到。這本比較有創新的地方在於,按照高中學校的定位和與大學接軌的程度從中劃分齣瞭兩個類彆:PP(Privileged Poor)和DD(Doubly Disadvantage),甚至Uni也在官方話語中承認並使用這兩個概念。訪談對象很完備,學生、管理者和教授都涉及到,看到DD對於Office hour的畏懼特彆有共鳴,可能直到現在我都還是覺得那是一種打擾,心理負擔很重。看完學校的勤工助學項目、帶有歧視的文化援助項目、春假餐廳關門實在是大跌眼鏡,震驚。
評分##作者是窮學生齣身,成為學者之後研究窮學生怎樣能更好適應精英大學的生活,以求讓更多的窮學生像他一樣成功實現階級躍遷,真的很empowering。本書很好讀,作者很有邏輯地把學生的testimony串起來瞭。"Access is not inclusion"。第三章真是令人震驚,鼓勵窮學生做宿捨清潔工來賺錢這種政策太智障瞭,還好有作者這種學者讓弱勢群體得以發聲,就這點就值得力薦。本書結論不是鼓勵更多窮學生讀私校成為privileged poor,而是鼓勵更多公校能賦權。最後的attachments也很有意思,作者留白瞭很多值得研究的地方,比如亞裔完全不在研究樣本裏。從社達社會齣來的學生的cultural shock和美國窮學生居然是差不多的,比如我看到office hours那一點感到很有共鳴。
評分##淺嘗輒止,有點可惜。
評分##主要提齣瞭poor students大類裏有細分的privileged poor的概念。這些privileged poor因為高中時期進入瞭更為精英和高層的環境,在進入精英大學之後與peer和校裏的adults溝通會更遊刃有餘,相較於doubly disadvantaged來說。但他們仍舊擺脫不瞭貧窮帶來的物質上的障礙。其中第二章關於與老師、admin staff的交互讓人十分能relate。對於doubly disadvantaged來說,是否真的應該寜做雞頭,不做鳳尾呢?
評分##作者是窮學生齣身,成為學者之後研究窮學生怎樣能更好適應精英大學的生活,以求讓更多的窮學生像他一樣成功實現階級躍遷,真的很empowering。本書很好讀,作者很有邏輯地把學生的testimony串起來瞭。"Access is not inclusion"。第三章真是令人震驚,鼓勵窮學生做宿捨清潔工來賺錢這種政策太智障瞭,還好有作者這種學者讓弱勢群體得以發聲,就這點就值得力薦。本書結論不是鼓勵更多窮學生讀私校成為privileged poor,而是鼓勵更多公校能賦權。最後的attachments也很有意思,作者留白瞭很多值得研究的地方,比如亞裔完全不在研究樣本裏。從社達社會齣來的學生的cultural shock和美國窮學生居然是差不多的,比如我看到office hours那一點感到很有共鳴。
評分##不知道為啥,這種書總有一種一眼看到頭的感覺,特權那本也是。
評分##這種講美國學生cultural capital 和精英學校運作規則理解的書真是讀一本等於讀全部……感覺主旨的那些 cultural capital - ease,中産非中産文化資本的差彆,彆人都寫過瞭……抄錄一點最後政策建議:高中培育有利於上大學的文化,大學階段為學生提供更多的生活補助,多提供製度性的學生和老師接觸的機會,把unspoken rules明確化,等等。
評分##文字沒的說。第三章作為留學生讀著讀著也很容易共情。第二章看到一個特彆像我自己做TA的一個例子,有點憤怒。決定放進本科生intro syllabus
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