Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses: The American Campus
Autor W. Carson Byrden Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2017 – vârsta ani
The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence their racial beliefs in a positive way, since many of these graduates will eventually hold leadership positions in society. He found that students at these universities believed in the success of the ‘best and the brightest,’ leading them to situate differences in race and status around issues of merit and individual effort.
Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.
Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813589367
ISBN-10: 0813589363
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 9 figures, 41 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria The American Campus
ISBN-10: 0813589363
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 9 figures, 41 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria The American Campus
Notă biografică
W. CARSON BYRD is an assistant professor of pan-African studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Cuprins
Preface xi
1 Easing into Views of Race and Inequality in Everyday
Life on Campus 1
2 Life before College: Factors Influencing Early Views of
Race and Inequality 23
3 Mixing It Up on Campus: Patterns of and Influences on
Student Interactions 57
4 Graduating Racial Ideologies: The College Impact on
Views of Race and Inequality 102
5 When Things Fall Apart: Identities and Interactions
within an Intersected Habitus 145
6 Interacting Futures and the Reproduction of
Racial Inequality 168
Appendix: Methodology 191
Notes 205
References 213
Index 227
1 Easing into Views of Race and Inequality in Everyday
Life on Campus 1
2 Life before College: Factors Influencing Early Views of
Race and Inequality 23
3 Mixing It Up on Campus: Patterns of and Influences on
Student Interactions 57
4 Graduating Racial Ideologies: The College Impact on
Views of Race and Inequality 102
5 When Things Fall Apart: Identities and Interactions
within an Intersected Habitus 145
6 Interacting Futures and the Reproduction of
Racial Inequality 168
Appendix: Methodology 191
Notes 205
References 213
Index 227
Recenzii
"A robust dissection of how educational racial inequality is reproduced under rosy conditions. Staggering in both facts and analysis, Poison in the Ivy will make you jump and twitch, but is so thorough that it guarantees not to leave you itching for more."
"Poison in the Ivy is more than a study of how students at highly selective universities interact along racial lines; the book’s insights reach far beyond to the current state of racial inequality more generally. Byrd examines a group of people – those educated at elite institutions – often held up as a model of sophisticated and liberal racial attitudes. His careful analysis raises important questions about their actual skills with understanding and navigating current racial realities. Given that these graduates tend to hold high powered positions in the world post-college, Byrd’s study offers a sobering forecast of what to expect in the years to come. This is an important book that scholars of race ethnicity, higher education, and inequality more generally should read immediately."
"Drawing on decades of social science research as well as original analyses of campus race relations, W. Carson Byrd, an assistant professor of pan-African studies at the University of Louisville, paints a bleak picture in his new book, Poison in the Ivy"
"Byrd’s analysis convincingly demonstrates that understanding contact alone is insufficient if we do not consider how that context may imbue particular kinds of meanings to those interactions that can enhance or undermine the impact of cross-racial contact. Such insights are important not only to our understanding of higher education but racial inequality more broadly. Without attention to these issues, racial inequality may be perpetuated for decades to come."
"We are indebted to Byrd for his exploration of the murky social undercurrents of under-graduate life. He documents how the gap between students of different racial groups that begins at home grows into a chasm in college. Those of us who venture to campus—whether as students, staff, or faculty—should take note of Byrd’s somber and sobering call."
"Poison in the Ivy definitively demonstrates that racial attitudes, relationships and outcomes do not simply result from personal choices, but instead are deeply rooted in centuries-old patterns. Economic, political, historical and institutional realities can—and too often do—thwart the best intentioned, "feel good" efforts to change structured racial inequality in America by simply changing individual attitudes and behaviors."
Descriere
Poison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society.