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American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique

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American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique - Liu, Catherine
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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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American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique 2011, University of Iowa Press

ISBN-13: 9781609380502

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