By Shamus Rahman Khan
As essentially the most prestigious excessive colleges within the state, St. Paul's college in harmony, New Hampshire, has lengthy been the unique area of America's wealthiest sons. yet occasions have replaced. this present day, a brand new elite of girls and boys is being molded at St. Paul's, one who displays the wish of openness but additionally the endurance of inequality. In Privilege, Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to supply an inside of examine an establishment that has been the personal realm of the elite for the earlier one hundred fifty years. He exhibits that St. Paul's scholars continue learning what they consistently have--how to include privilege. but, whereas scholars as soon as leveraged the trimmings of upper-class entitlement, kinfolk connections, and excessive tradition, present St. Paul's scholars learn how to reach a extra different atmosphere. To be the long run leaders of a extra democratic global, they have to be comfy with every thing from intellectual paintings to daily life--from Beowulf to Jaws--and view hierarchies as ladders to scale. via deft portrayals of the relationships between scholars, school, and employees, Khan exhibits how participants of the recent elite face the hole of society whereas nonetheless conserving the benefits that let them to rule.
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Heavily carved slabs of thick oak with large looping braided wrought-iron handles, it was clear that opening them would be no easy task. Standing in a hallway outside we could look out through the arched windows upon the immaculate lawns, ponds, buildings, and brick paths of the school that surrounded us. Behind those doors we could hear the muffled sounds of an organ and the murmurs of hundreds. I glanced around at the faces lined up behind me: excited, terrified, curious, tired. Some were nervously chattering, others frozen in place; surrounding me was a group of teenagers in their Sunday best, unsure what lay beyond.
While this respect of my peers made me proud, I was not sad to be moving on. I had purposefully not applied to the Ivy League schools that my classmates would be attending. St. Paul’s was a world I had learned to fit into but one that I was not particularly happy in. The source of my discontent was my increasing awareness of inequality. I kept returning to my first days: both my surprise at my minority student dorm and my discomfort among my elite classmates. The experience remained an aggravating curiosity.
I glanced around at the faces lined up behind me: excited, terrified, curious, tired. Some were nervously chattering, others frozen in place; surrounding me was a group of teenagers in their Sunday best, unsure what lay beyond. Behind those doors was our future. We waited. As the doors opened a quiet overcame everyone. A deep, steady voice began announcing names. With each name another one of us stepped into a dark silence beyond those doors. Our line shortened; our time grew nearer. Soon I could peer into the building we were about to enter.