The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few: Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse

Sophie Spieler

doi:10.14361/9783839457290

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-5729-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-5729-0
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: American Culture Studies
Volume: 33
Language: English
Pages: 276
Product type: Book Titles

FrontmatterPages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
ContentsPages 5 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
AcknowledgementsPages 7 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
IntroductionPages 9 - 20 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introductory RemarksPages 21 - 21 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American CulturePages 21 - 29 Download chapter (PDF)
3. ''Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent'': Eliteness in AmericaPages 29 - 50 Download chapter (PDF)
4. ''Excellence and Equity'': Merit as the Price of AdmissionPages 50 - 58 Download chapter (PDF)
5. ''A Touchy Subject''? Class and Elite EducationPages 58 - 67 Download chapter (PDF)
6. Concluding RemarksPages 67 - 68 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introductory RemarksPages 69 - 73 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Mapping the Critical LandscapePages 73 - 83 Download chapter (PDF)
3. Progressivist CritiquesPages 83 - 95 Download chapter (PDF)
4. Conservative CritiquesPages 95 - 109 Download chapter (PDF)
5. Concluding RemarksPages 110 - 112 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introductory RemarksPages 113 - 118 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and PathologyPages 118 - 123 Download chapter (PDF)
3. A Meritocracy of AffectPages 123 - 135 Download chapter (PDF)
4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, CommunityPages 135 - 170 Download chapter (PDF)
5. Concluding RemarksPages 170 - 174 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introductory RemarksPages 175 - 178 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite EducationPages 178 - 186 Download chapter (PDF)
3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, ''Preppiness'', and the Neoliberal ImaginationPages 186 - 211 Download chapter (PDF)
4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep''s Cultural WorkPages 211 - 242 Download chapter (PDF)
5. Concluding RemarksPages 242 - 248 Download chapter (PDF)
ConclusionPages 249 - 256 Download chapter (PDF)
Works CitedPages 257 - 276 Download chapter (PDF)