Race and class matters at an elite college [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Aries

• Autore: Aries Elizabeth
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.744/23
• Soggetto topico: Private universities and colleges - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Amherst; Minority college students - Massachusetts - Amherst - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Becoming a more diverse college : challenges and benefits -- Investigating race and class matters on campus -- First encounters with race and class -- Negotiating class differences -- Relationships across race and class -- Learning from racial diversity -- Learning from class-based diversity -- Negotiating racial issues -- As the year ended -- Meeting the challenges of diversity -- Appendix A. On-line survey measures -- Appendix B. Interview questions.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst College during the 2005-2006 academic year, this book offers a uniquely personal look at the day-to-day thoughts and feelings of students as they experience racial and economic diversity firsthand, some for the first time.Through online questionnaires and face-to-face inter
• Titolo autorizzato: Race and class matters at an elite college
• ISBN: 1-281-97327-0; 1-59213-727-X; 9786611973278
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454049003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II