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

By:

Johnson, Matthew (Matthew James), 1983-

Series: Histories of American educationPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020Description: 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781501748585

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Undermining racial justice.DDC classification:

378.774/35 23

LOC classification:

LC212.422 .M5 J64 2020

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

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.