Moving Up without Losing Your Way

This important and accessible study demonstrates the value of ethical analyses to understand these issues, aimed at strivers, their families, their communities, and the entire higher education community.-- Choice What are the ethical costs borne by first-generation students and their families and communities? Moving Up without Losing Your Way investigates the burden that first-generation, low-income, and immigrant students carry when they strive to achieve upward mobility through attending college. This book reshapes the conversation about upward mobility, shifting our focus from the opportunities embedded in the current social structure to the price paid by those aiming to climb it.--Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania For those of us who work with strivers. . . . Moving Up Without Losing Your Way provides an empathetic and clear-eyed analysis of the difficult choices they must make, and the costs of those choices to both themselves and their communities.---James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education Moving Up without Losing Your Way is a subtle philosophical exploration of the underappreciated costs involved in social mobility. This book is simultaneously a major contribution to the philosophical literature about higher education and essential reading for all college leaders, administrators, and teachers.--Harry Brighouse, coauthor of Educational Goods-- Choice Moving Up without Losing Your Way compellingly contends that conventional discourse about the socioeconomic mobility of college students from working-class, low-income, and first-generation backgrounds is fundamentally flawed. Showing how the process of mobility can be detrimental to students, this immensely readable book makes important arguments about the nature of power and structure in American society.--Elizabeth M. Lee, author of Class and Campus Life-- Choice Morton is not the first person to describe the myths and ordeals of upward mobility. Nor is she the first to call attention to this group of striving students. But where Morton differs--and meaningfully contributes--is in her perspective as a philosopher.---Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Public Books-- Choice Morton makes her main argument through an astute and very accessible philosophical analysis. . . . Morton's book is valuable because it not only focuses on the ethical costs of social mobility but also hints at solutions.---Helen De Cruz, The Philosphers' Magazine-- Choice