Table of Contents: The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few :

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Exposition: Approaching the Elite Educational Space
1. Introductory Remarks
2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture
3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America
4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission
5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education
6. Concluding Remarks
II. Critique: Elite Education and Its Discontents
1. Introductory Remarks
2. Mapping the Critical Landscape
3. Progressivist Critiques
4. Conservative Critiques
5. Concluding Remarks
III. Affirmation: Self-Representation at Princeton University
1. Introductory Remarks
2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology
3. A Meritocracy of Affect
4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community
5. Concluding Remarks
IV. Imagination: Fictionalizations of the Elite Educational Experience
1. Introductory Remarks
2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education
3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination
4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work
5. Concluding Remarks
Conclusion
Works Cited.