Race and Class Matters
Race and Class Matters
In this chapter we focus more directly on individualized and felt treatment of low-income Black students in a context in which difference manifests itself in the school's environment in particular kinds of ways. To be clear, we address felt peer racism but we do not have evidence from White and/or privileged students of color, or participant observation data, that validate such treatment directed towards this group. Significantly, however, the topic surfaced strongly among low-income Black students, making such felt treatment as linked to the nature of their “outsider within” status, important to unpack. As part of this discussion, we additionally take up the position of privileged multi-generational Black students and the privileged children of “flexible immigrants” of color in elite private schools. We then examine the college destination patterns of all students included in this book. We intentionally break from strong ethnographic form to probe, at a more deeply analytical and theoretical level, the meaning behind data reported here and in earlier chapters. At times, then, we go well beyond the actions and words of the participants themselves in order to theorize, in new ways, class and race productions.
Keywords: college destinations, facially neutral racial policies, colorblind racism, socio-cultural experiences, habitus, transition from middle school to high school, college outcome patterns, selectivity
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