
American Idyll
Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique
Catherine Liu(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 21. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-60938-050-2 (ISBN)
Description
A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, this argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else.
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Edition
New
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-050-2 (9781609380502)
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