Silence at Boalt Hall : the dismantling of affirmative action / Andrea Guerrero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guerrero, Andrea, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of California, Berkeley. School of Law--Admission.

University of California, Berkeley.

Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--California.

Affirmative action programs.

Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--California.

Discrimination in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of students, faculty, and administrators struggling with the politics of race in higher education at U.C. Berkeley's prestigious law school-one of the first institutions to implement affirmative action policies and one of the first to be forced to remove them. Andrea Guerrero is a member of the last class of students admitted to Boalt Hall under the affirmative action policies. Her informed and passionate journalistic account provides an insider's view into one of the most pivotal and controversial issues of our time: racial diversity in higher education.Guerrero relates the stories of those who benefited from affirmative action and those who suffered from its removal. She shows how the "race-blind" admission policies at Boalt have been far from race-neutral and how the voices of underrepresented minority students have largely disappeared. A hushed silence-the silence of students, faculty, and administrators unwilling and unable to discuss the difficult issues of race-now hangs over Boalt and many institutions like it, Guerrero claims. As the legal and sociopolitical battles over affirmative action continue on a number of consequential fronts, this book provides a rich and engrossing perspective on many facets of this crucial question.

Contents:

Balancing the scales

Pursuing excellence

Dismantling diversity

Reaching for answers

Listening to the silence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612762628

9781282762626

1282762621

9780520936348

0520936345

9781597348980

1597348988

OCLC:

475929689