Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U. S. Engineering : The History of an Occupational Color Line.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slaton, Amy E.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Focusing on engineering programs in three settings--Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s--Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Identity and Uplift: Engineering in the University of Mary land System in the Era of Segregation

Chapter 3. The Disunity of Technical Knowledge: Constructions of Racial Difference in Separate but Equal Engineering Education

Chapter 4. Opportunity in the City: Engineering Education in Chicago, 1960- 1980

Chapter 5. Urban Engineering and the Conservative Impulse: Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology

Chapter 6. Race and the New Meritocracy: Engineering Education in the Texas A&amp

M System, 1980 to the Present

Chapter 7. Standards and the "Problem" of Affirmative Action: Departures from Convention in the TAMU System

8. Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-05463-6

9780674054639

OCLC:

1564373058