Explores what is it like for low-income students to feel the need to “pass” in their new college environments where the majority of their peers enjoy a high level of economic, social, and cultural capital

Presents ethnographic data to show disparities between low-income students and their privileged peers

Examines challenges low-income students face academically and personally as they navigate the foreign elite college culture 

Kerry H. Landers is Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs in the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and Visiting Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, USA.