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

Van Pelt Library LC212.42 .H37 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Harris, Adam (Journalist), author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discrimination in higher education--United States--History.
Discrimination in higher education.
Racism in higher education--United States--History.
Racism in higher education.
Segregation in higher education--United States--History.
Segregation in higher education.
Education, Higher--United States--Finance--History.
Education, Higher.
Finance.
History.
United States.
Genre:
Instructional and educational works.
Physical Description:
259 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I BUILT
ch. 1 The Roots
ch. 2 A Compromise
ch. 3 The Fall Of Integrated Education
pt. II DEFENDED
ch. 4 The Tragedy Of Lloyd Gaines
ch. 5 A New Guinea Pig
ch. 6 "Segregated As Conditions Allow"
pt. III FAILED
ch. 7 This Whole Facade
ch. 8 Thirteen Years A Remedy, Thirty Years A Fight, Two Centuries A Struggle
ch. 9 What Hath We Wrought.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
ISBN:
9780062976482
0062976486
OCLC:
1204635631

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