The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.
Title:
The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.
ISBN:
9780062976482
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
259 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part I: Built. The roots ; A compromise ; The fall of integrated education -- Part II: Defended. The tragedy of Lloyd Gaines ; A new guinea pig ; "Segregated as conditions allow" -- Part III: Failed. This whole facade ; Thirteen years a remedy, thirty years a fight, two centuries a struggle ; What hath we wrought.
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.
OCLC Number:
on1204635631
Availability:
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