TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Matthew
TI  - Undermining racial justice: how one university embraced inclusion and inequality 
T2  - Histories of American education
SN  - 9781501748585
AV  - LC212.422 .M5 J64 2020
U1  - 378.774/35 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - University of Michigan
KW  - Admission
KW  - Affirmative action programs in education
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Ann Arbor
KW  - African American college students
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
KW  - Racism in higher education
KW  - Universities and colleges
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -