The Privileged Poor

How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

Anthony Abraham Jack

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$27.95 • £22.95 • €25.00

ISBN 9780674976894

Publication Date: 03/01/2019

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288 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

2 illus., 1 table

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Anthony Abraham Jack is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Formerly a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he has written for the New York Times and Washington Post and his research has been featured on The Open Mind, All Things Considered, and CNN.

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Awards & Accolades

2020 Pierre Bourdieu Award, Section on the Sociology of Education of the American Sociological Association

2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society

2019 Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association

2019 CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship, Council on Ethnic Participation of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE-CEP)

An NPR Books Best Book of 2019

2018 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press

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