The burden of academic success
Subtitle: loyalists, renegades, and double agents
By: Allison L. Hurst.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780739140598; 9780739140611
Subjects: Working class -- Education (Higher) -- United States; Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- United States; Social classes -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical and social background; title: Class stereotypes of intelligence and the possibilities of education; title: Opposing cultures; title: Divided loyalties; title: Gates and gowns; title: The burden of academic success.