Race and Class Matters at an Elite College

By Elizabeth Aries

Book Overview

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 interviews, Aries followed four groups of students throughout their first year of college: affluent whites, affluent blacks, less financially advantaged whites from families with more limited education, and less financially advantaged blacks from the same background. Drawing heavily on the voices of these freshmen, Aries chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversityOCoand what colleges might do to help their students learn more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592137253
• ISBN13: 9781592137251
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"