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Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schoolsreviewed by Pamela A. Sandoval - June 23, 2006 Title: Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools Author(s): Carrie Yang Costello Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville ISBN: 0826515053, Pages: 264, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Carrie Yang Costellos Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools is an effectively conducted study of how inequity is perpetuated in professional school programs. Costello reveals the process by which inequity is reproduced and presents a method for observing inequity-in-the-making. To begin her analysis, she provides two contradictory beliefs about inequity that are prevalent in todays society:
At the individual level, that stratification is a merit-based result of differing intellectual capacities of professional students
At the social level, that the unequal distribution of rewards results from the conspiracy of biased professionals to discriminate against certain types of students
Costello suggests that these ideas are overly simplistic and do not expose the underlying mechanisms that actually produce the inequity they aim to describe. Instead, she proposes a process that explains the notions of the individual and the social level in relation to one another by demonstrating how environment affects students... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Pamela Sandoval
State University of New York System Administration E-mail Author PAMELA A. SANDOVAL, Ph.D. is Assistant Provost for P-16 at the State University of New York System Administration. Recent publications include "A Feminist Perspective on Assessment" in Radical Pedagogy (2005) with S. G. Akyea, and "Inequity as a Source of the Cultural Gap in an Urban School/University Collaborative" in Urban Review (2001). She is currently working on a chapter that will be included in Susan Klein's "Gender Equity Handbook," (2nd Ed.) and "Building a Unit Assessment System: Creating Quality Evalution of Candidate Performance" that will be published in Education.
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