- Delivers a unique and original perspective that explores how students navigate elite universities by focussing on their race and class backgrounds.
- It provides an original, comparative account of how students are positioned as graduates in elite universities. It will specifically highlight how students' prior experiences have had a significant impact on their experiences at elite universities.
- By using Bourdieu and CRT, the book will provide a unique theoretical perspective on how inequalities are reproduced and perpetuated for some groups and not others.
Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Education at the University of Birmingham.
Martin Myers is a sociologist of education in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham.
Title: Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies
Author: Bhopal, Kalwant,Myers, Martin
ISBN: 9780367466077
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Number of Pages: 146
Weight: 0.2501 kg
'This compelling book reveals the commanding imprint of elite power on the workings of Britain's most famous universities. Bhopal and Myers quote numerous revealing accounts from students whose feelings are all too clearly marked by this experience. This will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and the wider public who want to understand how deep inequalities mark our education system.'
Mike Savage, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
'This ground-breaking book brings a range of critical theories to bear on the global problems posed by our elite universities. It considers how they cynically attempt to promote meritocracy and egalitarianism whilst simultaneously obscuring discriminatory practices. The book analyses a variety of topical issues including student experiences and how elite universities build a global reputation. Through an original theoretical lens and intensive empirical research, Bhopal and Myers set a critical fire beneath the virtue signalling marketing and positioning of the luxury brands of the worldwide Higher Education sphere.'
Professor John Preston, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
'Universities are under attack from the political right, who would have us believe that they are bastions of 'woke' egalitarianism, intent of the destruction of Western civilization. As this book demonstrates, with devastating clarity and detailed analysis, the truth is that elite universities operate as engines of class and race inequity. Elite universities market themselves as places of privilege and they fulfil an extraordinarily important role in legitimating and reproducing the racist and class structures upon which they feed.'
David Gillborn, Editor-in-Chief, Race Ethnicity and Education
