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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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