Cover of The American Dream and the Power of Wealth

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth

by Heather Beth Johnson

2006 248 pages eng

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth investigates the way that wealth (rather than income) structures educational opportunity in the United States. Furthermore, it shows the way that educational opportunity-the bedrock upon which our pervasive ideology of meritocracy or, in Johnson's terms, "t…

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