num_pages: 248
description: As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation St. Pauls School in Concord New Hampshire has long been the exclusive domain of Americas wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Pauls one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality.In Privilege Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the past 150 years. He shows that St. Pauls students continue to learn what they always have  how to embody privilege. Yet while students once leveraged the trappings of upper-class entitlement family connections and high culture current St. Pauls students learn to succeed in a more diverse environment. To be the future leaders of a more democratic world they must be at ease with everything from highbrow art to everyday life  from Beowulf to Jaws  and view hierarchies as ladders to scale. Through deft portrayals of the relationships among students faculty and staff Khan shows how members of the new elite face the opening of society while still preserving the advantages that allow them to rule.
language: English
title: Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
publisher: Princeton University Press