Roosevelt as two different kinds of entities whose wealth, prestige, and influence was purchased through the opium trade. He mentioned, I think – my memory is hazy! – Brown University and Franklin D. He mapped the influence of the opium trade on the formation of mass markets, carceral capitalism, and universities. His suggestion reminds me of a talk Amitav Ghosh gave years ago at the GC’s annual Victorians conference. The real historical actors are major institutions, corporations, and militaries who produce and reproduce power and the powerful. But he also suggests that there is no power elite consisting of specific individuals who make decisions and determine history. Wright Mills The Power Elite, he breaks society down into two rough-hewn categories: those who make big decisions, precipitating major historical events, and those who do not have the power to make great decisions or influence historical occurrences. By strengthening public institutions, building toward educational spaces that are much more just, joyous, inclusive, and accessible, there may be an opportunity to weaken the hold elite, private institutions have the production of wealth, power, decision-making capacities, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy, and knowledge. To my mind, equity, diversity, and inclusion should be hallmarks of the admission process at elite institutions, but I am so totally elite-institution averse, that I am less fired up by the idea of reforming Harvard’s admissions policies than I am by the idea of creating an alternate path forward for potential students that better serves individual and collective uplift at well-resourced public universities. While I was appalled anew by the data on the inherent racism and classism of legacy admissions, the ableism of athletic admissions, and the admissions process more generally, I was unsure about how to respond to this week’s reading. On Graduate Admissions and Whiteness: A Love Letter to Black/ Brown/ Queer Graduate Students Out There Everywhere

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