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

Author: Peter Schmidt
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st ed
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Schmidt
ISBN: 9781403976017 1403976015
OCLC Number: 85692751
Description: viii, 263 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Peter Schmidt.
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