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Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action / Peter Schmidt.
Van Pelt Library LC213.52 .S35 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Peter, 1964 January 20-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs in education--United States.
- Affirmative action programs in education.
- Discrimination in higher education--United States.
- Discrimination in higher education.
- United States.
- Universities and colleges--Admission.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 263 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a celebration of the few
- Skimming the top : how money rises above merit
- Crossing Eight Mile : how the rich deny education to the poor
- Putting out fires : the origins of college affirmative action
- The golden pipeline : profiting from preferences
- Collegiate divisions : the volatile mix on campuses
- Assault from the right : affirmative action under attack
- By any means necessary : Black voices fight to be heard
- Breaching walls : the uprising of the excluded
- The diversity dodge : fuzzy research to the rescue
- Supreme reckoning : the changing legal landscape
- The worried White House : Bush faces an American dilemma
- Voices from on high : the establishment speaks
- Affirmative action affirmed : the Supreme Court grants a reprieve
- The struggle continues : democracy rears its head.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403976015
- 9781403976017
- OCLC:
- 85692751
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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