TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cashin,Sheryll
TI  - Place, not race: a new vision of opportunity in America 
SN  - 9780807086148
AV  - LC213.52 .C38 2014
U1  - 370.117 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Affirmative action programs in education
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in education
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Admission
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Multicultural education
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW / Civil Rights
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-153)
N2  - "Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of public four-year colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they, too, have retreated. Law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. Sixty years since the historic decision, we're undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Setting aside race in use of place in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders"--
ER  -