Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White

✍ Scribed by Wise, Tim J

Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 209
Series: Positions: Education Politics and Culture
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of education is both a reflection of and a contributor to a structure of institutionalized racism and racial preference for the dominant majority.;AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RACIAL PREFERENCE IN BLACK AND WHITE -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Introduction -- 1 Affirmative Action Past and Present -- 2 White Racial Preference in Education -- 3 Responding to Critics of Affirmative Action -- 4 Defending Affirmative Action:it's About More Than Diversity -- Notes -- Index.

✦ Table of Contents

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RACIAL PREFERENCE IN BLACK AND WHITE --
Copyright --
Contents --
Series Editors' Introduction --
Introduction --
1 Affirmative Action Past and Present --
2 White Racial Preference in Education --
3 Responding to Critics of Affirmative Action --
4 Defending Affirmative Action:it's About More Than Diversity --
Notes --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Discrimination in higher education;Discrimination in higher education--United States;Electronic books;Discrimination in higher education -- United States;United States

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