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, witnessing up close the seemingly overnight
success of a "new entrepreneurial" class, negotiated both new and
seemingly unattainable standards of personal success and the
erosion of their own economic security.
"The Burdens of Aspiration" 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--Elsa Davidson 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, she provides keen
insights into 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.
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