The Burdens of Aspiration
Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20014543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elsa Davidson (0000-0002-3989-8677, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 249 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The burdens of aspiration (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9780814720875.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4242389177 |
| Open Library | OL25066536M |
| ISBN | 9780814720875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle-class residents negotiated both new and seemingly unattainable standards of personal success and the erosion of their own economic security. This book explores the imprint of the region's success-driven public culture, the realities of increasing social and economic insecurity, and models of success emphasized in contemporary public schools for the region's working- and middle-class youth. Focused on two disparate groups of students—low-income, “at-risk” Latino youth attending a specialized program exposing youth to high-tech industry within an “under-performing” public high school, and middle-income white and Asian students attending a “high-performing” public school with informal connections to the tech elite—the book offers an in-depth look at the process of forming aspirations across lines of race and class. By analyzing the successes and sometimes unanticipated effects of the schools' attempts to shape the aspirations and values of their students, the book considers the role schooling plays in social reproduction, and how dynamics of race and class inform ideas about responsible citizenship that are instilled in America's youth
Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social class · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Anthropology · California · Cultural · Education · Educational equalization · Polarization (Social sciences) · Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) · Social aspects · Social conditions · Social Science · Social sciences · Student aspirations · Youth
The child sensorium as privileged biopolitical resource
Achieving more than grades
Sacrifice, suffering and hope
The use of feedback mechanisms in interpreting the robustness of a neoliberal educational assemblage
Learning to aspire, aspiring to subvert
University students, career uncertainty, and the culture of authenticity
School is the Foundation of Everything’
Introduction
Responsible girls
Three reflections on Revolution at Point Zero for (re)producing an alternative academy
The Angel of Geography
Every household will be a micro-enterprise’
Notes on the making of an aspirational space-time in the U.S. public university
Cultivating the cosmopolitan child in Silicon Valley
Potentials of care
Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India
The Volunteer State
What Asian Americans Really Care about When They Care about Education
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |