Title: The burden of academic success : loyalists, renegades, and double agents /
Authors: Hurst, Allison L., 1969-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Working class Education (Higher) United States.; Academic achievement Social aspects United States.; Social classes United States
Abstract: "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 education; and in doing so, presents a new way of understanding social mobility in the United States today and the limits of the American Dream."--Jacket.
Contents: Historical and social background -- Class stereotypes of intelligence and the possibilities of education -- Opposing cultures -- Divided loyalties -- Gowns and gates -- The burden of academic success.