Presents the various trials of the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case, the final Supreme Court decision, and the impact of the case on laws regarding affirmative action and education.
Explores the role of white teachers in multicultural education, discussing the need for white educators in the U.S. and other nations of the West to understand the dynamics of past and present racial dominance in order to effect personal and social transformation.
Laurent Clerc tells how the deaf first gathered in Paris in the 18th century and how their language, the language of signs, spread through the Continent and across the Atlantic.
Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African-American girls before persecution forced its closing.
Examines the 1973 Supreme Court case in which Alan Bakke charged the University of California with discrimination after he was turned down by the university's medical school, which practiced affirmative action; discusses related court cases and laws; and includes a moot court exercise.
the landmark school desegregation case in retrospect
Cushman, Clare
2004
Contains twelve essays written in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education" in which various scholars discuss the history and legacy of the 1954 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that legally enforced racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
Provides background and discussion of the case brought by a white male student who challenged the affirmative action policy used in admitting students to the University of California medical school.
