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Speaking of race and class : the student experience at an elite college / Elizabeth Aries, Richard Berman.
LIBRA LD156 .A76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aries, Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amherst College--Freshman--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Amherst College.
- Private universities and colleges--Social aspects--Massachusetts--Amherst--Case studies.
- Private universities and colleges.
- Minority college students--Massachusetts--Amherst--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Minority college students.
- College students--Massachusetts--Amherst--Social conditions--Case studies.
- College students.
- Universities and colleges--Social aspects--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Elite (Social sciences)--United States.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Universities and colleges--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Massachusetts--Amherst.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Penn. : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- In Speaking of Race and Class, the follow-up volume to her groundbreaking Race and Class Maters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries collaborates with Richard Berman to complete her four-year study of diversity at a prestigious liberal arts college. Here the fifty-five affluent black, affluent white, lower-income black, and lower-income white Amherst students whom Aries interviewed in their freshmen and senior years provide a complete picture of what (and how) each group learned about issues of race and class. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Race and Class on Campus: Four Students' Stories 1
- 2 Moving In and the Challenges of Class 19
- 3 Bridging Two Worlds 39
- 4 Racial Insults 59
- 5 Black on Black 79
- 6 Black and White: Seeing Race Anew 99
- 7 Haves and Have-Nots: Seeing Class Anew 119
- 8 Where We Are 141
- 9 Where Do We Go from Here? 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439909669
- 1439909660
- 9781439909676
- 1439909679
- 9781439909683
- 1439909687
- OCLC:
- 792881687
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