Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%
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2016-10-01
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This essay critiques mismatch theory in science education, a theory supported by opponents of affirmative action who strive to derail efforts to diversify institutions of higher education. Can high-achieving students survive and thrive in an academic environment dominated by their super high-achieving peers? Our research suggests that while there are a variety of nuanced factors that impact an undergraduate's success in certain majors, students of all backgrounds can excel at highly selective universities, given the proper resources and support.
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Baker, LD, and T Canada (2016). Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%. Transforming Anthropology, 24(2). pp. 116–124. 10.1111/traa.12037 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15193.
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Lee D. Baker
Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He received his B.S. from Portland State University and doctorate in anthropology from Temple University. He has been a resident fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Johns Hopkins’s Institute for Global Studies, The University of Ghana-Legon, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Humanities Center. His books include From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010). Although he focuses on the history of anthropology, he has published numerous articles on such wide ranging subjects as socio-linguistics to race and democracy. Baker is also the recipient of Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award. He served as Dean of Academic Affairs from 2008-2016.
Tracie Canada
Tracie Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and affiliated with the Sports & Race Project at Duke University. As a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, she researches and teaches about race, sport, kinship, and the performing body. For more information, please visit her website: www.traciecanada.com.
Her book, Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, about the lived experiences of Black college football players, will be published by the Atelier series at University of California Press in February 2025. This work moves off the gridiron into the daily lives of the young Black athletes that sustain this American sport. Informed by more than a year of ethnographic research at universities in the southeastern United States, this book tells how institutional systems and everyday spaces order, discipline, and enact violence against Black players. Through an analysis of college athletes, Blackness, and two types of care, she argues that Black college football players successfully move through their everyday lives by reimagining certain kinship relationships and relying on various geographies of care.
An overall goal of her ethnographic research is to recenter and decanonize not only what we consider to be anthropological knowledge, but also who we consider to be academic and public knowledge producers. She is committed to bringing current social, political, and popular culture events into the intellectual conversation, and to highlighting how valuable lived and embodied knowledge can be. In her current and future projects, she aims to acknowledge what football, and the lived experiences of its Black players, can tell us about racial, historical, political, and power dynamics in the contemporary United States. She is particularly interested in the performing body to reveal how social hierarchies and inequalities manifest in embodied practice and how processes of violence and care are both impactful.
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