Undermining racial justice : how one university embraced inclusion and inequality / Matthew Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Matthew (Matthew James), 1983- author.

Series:

Histories of American education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Michigan--Admission.

University of Michigan.

Discrimination in higher education--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Discrimination in higher education.

Affirmative action programs in education--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Affirmative action programs in education.

Racism in higher education--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Racism in higher education.

Universities and colleges--Michigan--Ann Arbor--Admission.

Universities and colleges.

African American college students--Civil rights--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

African American college students.

Universities and colleges--Admission.

Civil rights.

Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Michigan.

Physical Description:

325 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"In this book, Matthew Johnson focuses on the University of Michigan-an institution at the epicenter of the struggle over what racial justice should look like in practice in American higher education. In 1963, Michigan became one of the first post-secondary institutions in the United States to create an affirmative action admissions program. Since then, Michigan administrators have been on the frontlines of implementing and defending race-conscious solutions to inequality. Johnson analyzes the five-decade fight, from the early 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century, over what racial justice should look like at the University of Michigan. He finds that, over time, the early linkage between racial equality and social and economic justice became attenuated. The rise of the language of diversity as the goal of Michigan's admissions program signaled the decline of social and economic justice as a stated or even implicit goal of admissions policy"-- Provided by publisher

"In this book, Matthew Johnson focuses on the University of Michigan-an institution at the epicenter of the struggle over what racial justice should look like in practice in American higher education. In 1963, Michigan became one of the first post-secondary institutions in the United States to create an affirmative action admissions program. Since then, Michigan administrators have been on the frontlines of implementing and defending race-conscious solutions to inequality. Johnson analyzes the five-decade fight, from the early 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century, over what racial justice should look like at the University of Michigan. He finds that, over time, the early linkage between racial equality and social and economic justice became attenuated. The rise of the language of diversity as the goal of Michigan's admissions program signaled the decline of social and economic justice as a stated or even implicit goal of admissions policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Preserving Inequality

Bones and Sinews

The Origins of Affirmative Action

Rise of the Black Action Movement

Controlling Inclusion

Affirmative Action for Whom?

Sustaining Racial Retrenchment

The Michigan Mandate

Gratz v. Bollinger

Epilogue : The University as Victim

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johnson, Matthew (Matthew James), 1983- Undermining racial justice.

ISBN:

9781501748585

1501748580

OCLC:

1105734890