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Author Okechukwu, Amaka, author.

Title To fulfill these rights : political struggle over affirmative action and open admissions / Amaka Okechukwu
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages)
Contents A right of post-war citizenship : the emergence of mass higher education and race-and-class inclusive admissions -- Legal mobilization : racial political strategy and affirmative action retrenchment in the federal courts -- Board votes and ballot initiatives : racial political strategy in trustee decision-making and state elections -- A force of nature : student resistance to policy elimination -- The limitations of diversity : defensive innovation after the end of affirmative action and open admissions -- Appendix A: Situating political struggle over affirmative action and open admissions -- Appendix B: Research methodology
Summary In To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2019)
Subject Discrimination in higher education -- United States
Affirmative action programs in education -- United States
Universities and colleges -- Open admission -- United States
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Affirmative action programs in education
Discrimination in higher education
Minorities -- Education (Higher)
Universities and colleges -- Admission
Universities and colleges -- Open admission
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019013978
ISBN 9780231544740
023154474X