Class and campus life : managing and experiencing inequality at an elite college /

In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Elizabeth M., 1974- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1ffjpwv
Table of Contents:
  • College plans, college dreams
  • Scholarship girls : creating community and diversity on campus
  • Are you my friend or are you classist? : confronting and avoiding inequality among peers
  • Activism and representation : organizing class
  • Silence vs. empowerment : class inequality in formal settings
  • After college : class and mobility.