Black Harvard Professor Book Reveals How Being Privileged and Poor Effects Lower-Income Students

While excellence is a standard for many black people; privilege and opportunity aren’t often as synonymous as linguistics suggests for those pursuing higher education at predominantly white colleges and universities. In the book, “The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students”, Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores the complexities that lower-income students face in the world of academia.