Njerome karabel's book the chosen

No one who reads this remarkable book will ever think about college admissions or america in the same. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale. Lani guinier, bennett boskey professor at harvard law school and coauthor of the miners canarymillions of americans think of the ivy league as a training ground for the best and brightest. Karabel s strenuously detailed, sometimes repetitive examination of admissions policies at ivy league schools shows that the history of americas top universities is steeped in systematic discrimination against jews and minorities. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and princeton. This wonderful book is impressive both in its quality and the astounding amount of detail provided. The chosen is a refreshingly candid account of the admissions madness at elite colleges, where merit often functioned simply as a handmaiden to power. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and. The task karabel sets himself in the chosen is to trace the evolution of tacit worldviews, each appearing fixed and immutable to its advocates, that over the last century determined who would and. Jerome bernard karabel born 1950 is an american sociologist, political and social commentator, and professor of sociology at the university of california at berkeley. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and princeton 2005, which received the distinguished scholarly book award from the american sociological association. The chosen is a dispiriting book for a college professor to read, not only because it recounts a.

In the chosen jerome karabel has compiled a comprehensive and riveting account of the hidden causes for american education as we know it today. A landmark work of social and cultural history, the chosen vividly reveals the changing. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and princeton jerome karabel on. He has written extensively on american institutions of higher education and on various aspects of social policy and history in the united states, often from a comparative perspective. The chosen is a dispiriting book for a college professor to read, not only because it recounts a history of antisemitism that was blatant, deliberate, and well known, not only because so many. He portrays harris as a calculating, egocentric psychopath, someone who labeled his journal the book of god and. This is the rare scholarly book that reads like a good novel. In the chosen, the berkeley sociologist jerome karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and princeton. The chosen is a dispiriting book for a college professor to read, not only because it recounts a history of antisemitism that was blatant, deliberate, and well known, not only. The hidden history of admission and exclusion at harvard, yale, and princeton, the rapid influx of jewish students in the early years of the 20th century presented a dramatic challenge to the existing ivy league order. Graduates of the top three schools run the country, and therefore the world.