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American idyll : academic antielitism as cultural critique / Catherine Liu

Liu, Catherine [Verfasser]

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (ix, 259 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-60938-051-9 ; 1-60938-051-7 ; 978-1-60938-050-2

 

USA  Intellektueller  Elite  Populismus  Geschichte 1980-2010 

℗¡A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll 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. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy.