Friday, January 21, 2011

From G. William Domhoff's `Who Rules America?"--Part 4

In his classic book of U.S. power structure research, Who Rules America?, G.William Domhoff wrote the following in reference to institutional classism and the U.S. private school system:

"A person is considered to be a member of the upper class if he has attended any one of the private preparatory schools listed below:

Asheville (Asheville, N.C.)
Buckley (New York, N.Y.)
Choate (Wallingford, Conn.)
Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Deerfield (Deerfield, Mass.)
Episcopal High (Alexandria, Va.)
Groton (Groton, Mass.)
Hill (Pottstown, Pa.)
Hotchkiss (Lakeville, Conn.)
Kent (Kent, Conn.)
Lake Forest (Lake Forest, Ill.)
Lawrenceville (Lawrenceville, N.J.)
Loomis (Windsor, Conn.)
Middlesex (Concord, Mass.)
Milton (Milton, Mass.)
Pomfret (Pomfret, Conn.)
Portsmouth Priory (Portsmouth, R.I.)
St. Andrew's (Middletown, Del.)
St. George's (Newport, R.I.)
St. Mark's (Southborough, Mass.)
St. Paul's (Concord, N.H.)
Shattuck (Faribault, Minn.)
Webb (Bell Buckle, Tenn.)
Woodberry Forest (Woodberry Forest, Va.)

"According to Baltzell, exclusive private schools are an even better index to upper-class status than the Social Register...

"...Exeter and Andover have been excluded from the list because of their large minority of scholarship students..."

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