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    “The barrier has changed shape rather than place —Auexts pe Tocqvevi.is ConTENTS Introduction: Democratic Inequality ‘The New Elice inding One’s Place . The Ease of Privilege . Gender and the Performance of Privilege Learning Beowulfand Jaws Conclusion Methodological and Theoretical Reflections Acknowledgments Noes Works Cited Index al 7 14 151 193 201 207 21 223, 29 Introduction: Democratic Inequality “The direction in which education stars aman wil determine his fare in ie —Piaro My sory i par ofthe larger American sory. Barack Onanta Lam surrounded by black and Latino boys. [As I looked around the common room of my new dorm this was all 1 could think about. It was September 1993, and I was a rather young fourteen-year-old leaving home for the fist ime. My parents, who had hhelped me unpack my room and were about to say good-bye, noticed as well. We didnt say anything to one another. But the surprise on their faces was mirrored on my own. This was not what I expected, enrolling at a place like Se. Pau’s School. I thought I would be unlike everyone ese. T thought my name and justdarker-than-olive skin would make me the most extreme outlier among the students. But though my parents grew up in small rural villages in Pakistan and Ireland and my father was not white, they had become wealthy. My father was a successful surgeon; my mother ‘was a nurse. I had been at private school since seventh grade, and being partly from the Indian subcontinent hardy afforded one oppressed minor- ity stats, For the other boys around me, those from poor neighborhoods in Americas urban centers, St. Paul's was a much more jarring experience. 1 quickly realized that Se. Pauls was fa from racially diverse. That ca of

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