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The Burden of Academic Success
Managing Working-Class Identities in College
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2010
Summary
The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this book describes how successful students respond to, react to, and manage their academic success. The book does for class what other theorists have done for race, examining the dynamic interplay of class identity and educational success/social mobility. The distinguishing features of the book are rich narrative detail; compelling stories of student success and struggle; intersectional analysis exploring the ways class, race, and gender inform each other in students' understandings and narratives with an interwoven theory throughout; and a new typology for understanding working-class student responses to the burden of academic success. The Burden of Academic Success is ideal for courses on sociology, education, and American studies as well as for use by college educators and administrators.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4059-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4061-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
317
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: Historical and Social Background No access Pages 17 - 64
Chapter Three: Class Stereotypes of Intelligence and the Possibilities of Education No access Pages 65 - 102
Chapter Four: Opposing Cultures No access Pages 103 - 134
Chapter Five: Divided Loyalties No access Pages 135 - 172
Chapter Six: Gowns and Gates No access Pages 173 - 200
Chapter Seven: The Burden of Academic Success No access Pages 201 - 226
Chapter Eight: Conclusion No access Pages 227 - 248
