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Title:

A dubious expediency : how race preferences damage higher education / edited by Gail Heriot and Maimon Schwarzschild.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Encounter Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

321 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Racism in higher education--United States.
Universities and colleges--United States--Admission.
Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Other Authors:

Heriot, Gail, 1957- editor.
Schwarzschild, Maimon, 1951- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Starting down the slippery slope / John M. Ellis -- A dubious expediency / Gail Heriot -- Diversity's descent / Peter Wood -- Segregation now / Peter N. Kirsanow -- Breaking the STEM / Heather Mac Donald -- The sausage factory : why do courts defer to colleges' race-based admissions? / Gail Heriot & Carissa Mulder -- Race preferences and discrimination against Asian Americans / Lance Izumi & Rowena Itchon -- A class act? : social class affirmative action / Maimon Schwarzschild.

Summary:

"This book will consist of seven or more essays, critical in different ways of racial "diversity" preferences in American higher education. Unlike many more conventional books on the subject, which are essentially apologies for racial reverse discrimination, this volume forthrightly exposes the corrosive effects of identity politics on college and university life"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1641771321
9781641771320

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1201694637

LCCN:

2020044107

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)