discrimination in higher education

"Eternity Martis thought going away to university would help her discover who she really is . . . . When she heads out to the predominantly white college town of London, Ontario, Eternity discovers an entitled culture of racism and sexism. As her boyfriend becomes increasingly violent, Eternity navigates her first parties, her father's continued attempts at a relationship, the revelation that she has several half-siblings she's never heard anything about, and the growing complexity of her friendships. . . . As more and more classmates of color feel driven out of the university, Eternity decides to stay, and in doing so finds a group of likeminded women to support her through discovering who she is in a place that tries to tear her down"--Provided by publisher.

"An account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning"--Amazon.

"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty yearslater, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, is even more complex"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at racism that is still found on college campuses across the United States and how that racism makes colleges a hostile place for African American students.

A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

Recounts the events surrounding a Supreme Court case in which two white applicants who had been rejected by the University of Michigan sued the school for racial preferences, and discusses how the case has impacted affirmative action policies in American schools.

Essays from various sources provide a wide range of opinions on affirmative action, examining the pros and cons and clarifying the issues surrounding it.

"Chapters explore declining diversity, the effect upon professional schools, the historical perspective of the subject, the courts' role in affirmative action, inequities in the admissions process, percentage plans as an alternative, the detrimental results of 'colorblind' admissions, and ways to address the problem"--Provided by publisher.