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Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action
- Title
- Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action / Peter Schmidt.
- Author
- Schmidt, Peter, 1964 January 20-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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- Description
- viii, 263 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-251) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : a celebration of the few -- Skimming the top : how money rises above merit -- Crossing Eight Mile : how the rich deny education to the poor -- Putting out fires : the origins of college affirmative action -- The golden pipeline : profiting from preferences -- Collegiate divisions : the volatile mix on campuses -- Assault from the right : affirmative action under attack -- By any means necessary : Black voices fight to be heard -- Breaching walls : the uprising of the excluded -- The diversity dodge : fuzzy research to the rescue -- Supreme reckoning : the changing legal landscape -- The worried White House : Bush faces an American dilemma -- Voices from on high : the establishment speaks -- Affirmative action affirmed : the Supreme Court grants a reprieve -- The struggle continues : democracy rears its head.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-939
- ISBN
- 1403976015
- 9781403976017
- LCCN
- 2007007039
- OCLC
- 85692751
- Author
- Schmidt, Peter, 1964 January 20-
- Title
- Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action / Peter Schmidt.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-251) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-939