Shamus Rahman Khan, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
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...The implicit project at the country club, the elite school, or the men’s sports club can be to collectively construct and enact participants’ difference and superiority in comparison to the excluded group (Khan 2011)....
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...…homogenization around the institutional language of multiculturalism, tolerance, respect for diversity, and non-comparability across forms of participation, elites continue to engage aesthetic objects in ways that seem both class-coded and linked to class-specific experiences (Khan 2011)....
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...The basic empirical mystery has now acquired the status of a canonical finding in the educational stratification literature: in spite of having comparable aspirations and subjective assessments of their academic competence, substantial gaps exist in achievement and the likelihood of making educational transitions for black and Hispanic youths in comparison to white youths in the United States....
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...One is tied to chronically accessible declarations of ethnoracial pride typical of black and other racialized ethnic minorities in the United States; the other is tied to equally long-standing and universal (across ethnoracial groups) commitments to American ideals of success and achievement....
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...The most salient manifestation of this phenomenon, and the one Khan (2011) sees as constitutive of modern forms of privilege, is that instanced in the declarative endorsement of highly institutionalized public codes promoting openness, cosmopolitanism, and meritocracy, along with pervasive…...
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...Semantic knowledge is usually impersonal and thus mainly stated as propositions about the world, at varying degrees of abstraction, without explicit reference to individual experience (e.g., “in the United States, doing well in school leads to better jobs”)....
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...…book’s closing paragraph, ‘The production of privilege will continue to reproduce inequality while implying that ours is a just world; the weapons of the weak are removed, and the blame for inequality is placed on the shoulders of those whom our democratic promise has failed’ (Khan, 2010, p. 192)....
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...These privileged students are made into elites by the interactions that consecrate them, by the consistent, generous feedings they receive of their own capacity and promise’ (Khan, 2010, p. 162)....
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