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Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action / Peter Schmidt.

by Schmidt, Peter, 1964 January 20-

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Affirmative action programs in education -- United States.

Discrimination in higher education -- United States.

Universities and colleges -- Admission.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007007039-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007007039-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007007039-t.html

viii, 263 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

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