State Must Provide (e-bog) af Harris, Adam
Harris, Adam (forfatter)

State Must Provide e-bog

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A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer. Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmericas colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From...
E-bog 97,26 DKK
Forfattere Harris, Adam (forfatter)
Forlag Ecco
Udgivet 10 august 2021
Længde 272 sider
Genrer 1KBB
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780062976499
A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer. Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmericas colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or accessibility, but on educatingand prioritizingwhite students. Black students have always been an afterthought. While governments and private donors funnel money into majority white schools, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and other institutions that have high enrollments of Black students, are struggling to survive, with state legislatures siphoning away federal funds that are legally owed to these schools. In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits.Harris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an education, pivotal Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, and the governments role in creating and upholding a segregated education system. He explores the role that Civil Warera legislation intended to bring agricultural education to the masses had in creating the HBCUs that have played such a major part in educating Black students when other state and private institutions refused to accept them.The State Must Provideis the definitive chronicle of higher educations failed attempts at equality and the long road still in front of us to remedy centuries of racial discriminationand poses a daring solution to help solve the underfunding of HBCUs. Told through a vivid cast of characters, The State Must Provideexamines what happened before and after schools were supposedly integrated in the twentieth century, and why higher education remains broken to this day.