John Williams

Race Discrimination in Public Higher Education

Interpreting Federal Civil Rights Enforcement, 1964-1996

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Produktbeschreibung

After years of widely acknowledging race discrimination in higher education, American government leaders, college and university officials, and at-large citizens today question the need for civil rights laws and policies. Within an important sector of the public higher education community - roughly nineteen states that used to operate laws separating students by race - dispute focuses upon systemwide Title VI enforcement. Two interpretations of Title VI enforcement coexist. Among conservatives, absence of continuing discrimination and continuing good faith effort signal an end to the need for government enforcement. Among more liberal stakeholders, past enforcement has been weakly undertaken despite past and currently increasing evidence of continued discrimination. Closely reviewing evidence of past and current enforcement, Williams presents a reinterpretation: Considerable evidence of continued discrimination exists, but weak design and limited implementation provides an incomplete picture of past and current enforcement. Weak federal enforcement establishes a context for previously unrecognized unofficial state responses, and unofficial responses display important elements of a generic race relations ritual first chronicled in largely forgotten humanities and sociological literature from the 1960s. An important study for scholars, students, researchers, and policymakers of contemporary American education and race relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780275959845
• ISBN-10: 0275959848
• Artikelnr.: 22450792

Autorenporträt

If you are looking for the author, John Williams, you won't find him in the office writing. He may be trekking a nearby hiking trail or floating in his canoe or kayak on one of the beautiful lakes that surround his Appalachian foothills home. If not there, jump on your bicycle and find a nearby trail, he may be wrapped around a tree somewhere and in need of your help. Teddi, his wife of 50 years, will tell you to take your time. Four children, all grown, made a break for it and put roots in different parts of our beautiful country. The seven grandkids don't know what he looks like. Go to the nearest locally owned coffee shop and just by chance he may be there. He will be the only one with a pencil and paper.

©The University of Denver

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Federal Aspects of Enforcement in Higher Education
1970-90 Formal and Informal State Title VI Enforcement Patterns
1970-90: Case Study of the Georgia State University System Mobilizing Title VI Enforcement in Mississippi
1992-96 Planning Civil Rights Enforcement in Alabama
Mississippi
and Louisiana Findings
Conclusions
and Recommendations Select Bibliography