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The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
- Title
- The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Adam, (Journalist)
- Publication
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 259 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Segregation in higher education
- Racism in higher education
- Discrimination in higher education
- Black author
- Instructional and educational works
- History
- United States
- Education, Higher > Finance
- Education, Higher > United States > Finance > History
- Segregation in higher education > United States > History
- Racism in higher education > United States > History
- Discrimination in higher education > United States > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-205
- ISBN
- 9780062976482
- 0062976486
- OCLC
- 1204635631
- Author
- Harris, Adam, (Journalist), author.
- Title
- The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-205