“College campuses are now among the more economically and ethnically diverse domains of a society that is otherwise increasingly segregated by class and race. This is another far-reaching consequence of postsecondary expansion during the Cold War. As college became a quasi-right, people from a wide variety of social backgrounds successfully claimed more and better real estate in higher education. Black, Latinx, and Asian students from a wide range of class backgrounds came to vastly outnumber wealthy white men—even on campuses like Jack’s Renowned University, once ground zero for the College Man. Students from very different backgrounds encounter one another in classrooms, bathrooms, and residence halls. They overhear each other’s elevator conversations, struggle to decipher the semiotic codes of clothing and hairstyles, and are alternately intrigued and frustrated by their differences. Such diversity generates thrilling insight and pleasure, routine misunderstanding, and—occasionally—outright conflict.”