
Poison in the Ivy
Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
By: W. Carson Byrd
Hardcover | 24 November 2017
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Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students' beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.
Industry Reviews
-- Matthew W. Hughey * author of White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race *
"Poison in the Ivy is more than a study of how students at highly selective universities interact along racial lines; the book's insights reach far beyond to the current state of racial inequality more generally. Byrd examines a group of people - those educated at elite institutions - often held up as a model of sophisticated and liberal racial attitudes. His careful analysis raises important questions about their actual skills with understanding and navigating current racial realities. Given that these graduates tend to hold high powered positions in the world post-college, Byrd's study offers a sobering forecast of what to expect in the years to come. This is an important book that scholars of race ethnicity, higher education, and inequality more generally should read immediately." -- Amanda Lewis * author of Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color-line in Classrooms and Communities *
"Drawing on decades of social science research as well as original analyses of campus race relations, W. Carson Byrd, an assistant professor of pan-African studies at the University of Louisville, paints a bleak picture in his new book, Poison in the Ivy" -- Nick Roll * Inside Higher Ed *
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"Byrd's analysis convincingly demonstrates that understanding contact alone is insufficient if we do not consider how that context may imbue particular kinds of meanings to those interactions that can enhance or undermine the impact of cross-racial contact. Such insights are important not only to our understanding of higher education but racial inequality more broadly. Without attention to these issues, racial inequality may be perpetuated for decades to come." * American Journal of Sociology *
"We are indebted to Byrd for his exploration of the murky social undercurrents of under-graduate life. He documents how the gap between students of different racial groups that begins at home grows into a chasm in college. Those of us who venture to campus-whether as students, staff, or faculty-should take note of Byrd's somber and sobering call." * Contemporary Sociology *
"Poison in the Ivy definitively demonstrates that racial attitudes, relationships and outcomes do not simply result from personal choices, but instead are deeply rooted in centuries-old patterns. Economic, political, historical and institutional realities can-and too often do-thwart the best intentioned, "feel good" efforts to change structured racial inequality in America by simply changing individual attitudes and behaviors." * Review of Higher Education *
ISBN: 9780813589374
ISBN-10: 0813589371
Series: The American Campus
Published: 24th November 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
For Ages: 21+ years old
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.51
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