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Minorities in higher education : 1991 tenth annual status report / Deborah J. Carter, Reginald Wilson. by Wilds, Deborah J.(CARDINAL)195154; Wilson, Reginald,1929-(CARDINAL)167432; American Council on Education.Office of Minorities in Higher Education.(CARDINAL)217014;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34).
Subjects: Statistics.; Minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Make your home among strangers / by Crucet, Jennine Capó.(CARDINAL)563317;
"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live...Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; College students; Families; Minorities in higher education;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Illiberal education : the politics of race and sex on campus / by D'Souza, Dinesh,1961-(CARDINAL)172786;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-304) and index.
Subjects: Case studies.; Educational equalization; Discrimination in education; Minorities;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ebony and ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / by Wilder, Craig Steven.(CARDINAL)685582;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: African Americans; Discrimination in higher education; Minorities; Racism in education; Slavery; Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / by Wilder, Craig Steven,author.(CARDINAL)685582;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Part I. Slavery and the rise of the American college. The edges of the empire -- "Bonfires of the Negros" -- "The very name of a West-Indian" -- Ebony and ivy -- Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised Land -- "All students & all Americans" -- "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" -- "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue : cotton comes to Harvard."A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. Many of America's revered colleges and universities--from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC--were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them. Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics." -- Publisher's description.A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Subjects: African Americans; Discrimination in higher education; Minorities; Racism in education; Slavery; Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Mismatch : how affirmative action hurts students it's intended to help, and why universities won't admit it / by Sander, Richard Henry,1956-author.(CARDINAL)690224; Taylor, Stuart,Jr.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)530589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.I. Introduction. The idea of mismatch and why it matters -- A primer on affirmative action -- II. Stirrings of mismatch. The discovery of the mismatch effect -- Law school mismatch -- The debate on law school mismatch -- The breadth of mismatch -- III. The California experiment: What happens after a legal ban on racial preferences? Proposition 209: the high road and the low road -- The warming effect -- Mismatch and the swelling ranks of graduates -- The hydra of preferences: the evasion of Prop 209 at the University of California -- IV. Law and ideology. Why academics avoid honest debate about affirmative action -- Media, politics, and the accountability void -- The Supreme Court: rewarding opacity -- The George Mason affair -- Transparency and the California Bar affair -- V. The way forward. Class, race, and the targeting of preferences -- Closing the test score gap: better parenting and K-12 education -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Affirmative action programs in education; Discrimination in education; Educational equalization; Minorities; Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Bigotry and violence on American college campuses / by United States Commission on Civil Rights.(CARDINAL)137811;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80).
Subjects: Discrimination in higher education; Minority college students; School violence; Toleration.;
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Degrees of difference : reflections of women of color on graduate school / by McKee, Kimberly,(Kimberly D.),editor.; Delgado, Denise A.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index."Although universities have begun to assert a commitment to diversity and inclusivity, this directive has not translated into actual support for underrepresented communities, especially women of color graduate students. It is still commonplace for these students to encounter sexism, racism, homophobia, and classism among fellow graduate students and faculty--often all at the same time. These women encounter fellow graduate students who look down on community college graduates and faculty who do not support ethnic studies or work on people of color. Male scholars dominate classroom texts, and if there is a female scholar included, she is inevitably white. Students are asked inappropriate and invasive questions as they begin to feel like imposters among a sea of white faces. Degrees of Difference bridges the political and personal gap by providing frank and honest reflections on the power relationships that exist within higher education. Contributors come from across the academy, including social work, medicine, history, and ethnic studies, providing diverse perspectives on navigating the challenging path of graduate school. A Latina reflects on the failure of social work curriculum to fully address racial/ethnic minorities, a queer black feminist shares strategies for navigating med school, and one woman of color gives insight into the added hurdles of raising two children while finishing her dissertation. Because there is a dearth of resources for graduate students of color, especially women, this volume will become a go-to resource for navigating higher education. However, in addition to reaching out to women of color, this collection should also be seen as a tool to educate men of color, white allies, and family members on the experiences of women of color in graduate school"--
Subjects: Discrimination in higher education; Minority women; Minority graduate students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Place, not race : a new vision of opportunity in America / by Cashin, Sheryll.(CARDINAL)468245;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-153).White resentment, the declining use of race, and gridlock -- Place matters -- Optical diversity vs. real inclusion -- Place, not race, and other radical reforms -- Reconciliation."Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of public four-year colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they, too, have retreated. Law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. Sixty years since the historic decision, we're undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Setting aside race in use of place in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders"--
Subjects: Affirmative action programs in education; Discrimination in education; Universities and colleges; Minorities; Educational equalization; Multicultural education; Cultural pluralism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Status report on women in the community college system : a response to the Task Force on Women and the Economy / by Adams, Joan P.(CARDINAL)202431; North Carolina Community College System.(CARDINAL)177120; North Carolina.Task Force on Women and the Economy.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Community colleges; Minorities; Women in education; Vocational education; Women; Women's studies; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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