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The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right  Cover Image Book Book

The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.

Summary:

Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062976482 hardcover
  • ISBN: 0062976486 hardcover
  • Physical Description: 259 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I: Built. The roots ; A compromise ; The fall of integrated education -- Part II: Defended. The tragedy of Lloyd Gaines ; A new guinea pig ; "Segregated as conditions allow" -- Part III: Failed. This whole facade ; Thirteen years a remedy, thirty years a fight, two centuries a struggle ; What hath we wrought.
Subject: Discrimination in higher education > United States > History.
Racism in higher education > United States > History.
Segregation in higher education > United States > History.
Education, Higher > United States > Finance > History.

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