Asking about scholarships marks aid recipients as diminished outsiders
Evidence
At Stanford, I was often asked by peers and professors if I was there on a scholarship. Underlying this question was the implication that receiving financial aid “diminished” one in some way. It was not just this experience that intensified my awareness of class difference, it was the constant evocation of materially privileged class experience (usually that of the middle class) as a universal norm that not only set those of us from working-class backgrounds apart but effectively excluded those who were not privileged from discussions, from social activities. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 360
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Asking the lone minority student to explain ethnic texts burden them unfairly — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 92; Scholarship is a civil conversation rather than a contest over truth — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333; Elite recruiters favor financially costly extracurriculars over traditional qualifications (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Class norms can render poverty invisible by forbidding both asking and offering help
#expands(0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 444 - Scholarship is a civil conversation rather than a contest over truth
#contradicts(0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333 - Elite recruiters favor financially costly extracurriculars over traditional qualifications
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