04147oam 2200601 450 991079419080332120230308231215.09781501748592electronic book1-5017-4860-210.7591/9781501748592(CKB)4100000010650444(OCoLC)1105749360(MdBmJHUP)muse81352(MiAaPQ)EBC5964951(DE-B1597)535331(DE-B1597)9781501748592(EXLCZ)99410000001065044420200406h20202020 uy 0engur|n#|||||n||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUndermining racial justice how one university embraced inclusion and inequality /Matthew JohnsonIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,2020.©20201 online resourceHistories of American EducationIncludes index.Print version: 9781501748585 1-5017-4859-9 1-5017-4858-0 Front matter --Contents --Introduction: Preserving Inequality --1. Bones and Sinews --2. The Origins of Affirmative Action --3. Rise of the Black Campus Movement --4. Controlling Inclusion --5. Affirmative Action for Whom? --6. Sustaining Racial Retrenchment --7. The Michigan Mandate --8. Gratz v. Bollinger --Epilogue: The University as Victim --Acknowledgments --Notes --IndexOver the last sixty years, administrators on US college campuses have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often a key talking point in national debates over racial justice thanks to the controversial Gratz v. Bollinger decided by the Supreme Court in 2003, Johnson argues that UM leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used in order to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. Despite knowing that racial disparities would likely continue, Johnson demonstrates that these administrators improbably saw themselves as champions of racial equity. What Johnson contends in Undermining Racial Justice, isn't that good intentions resulted in unforeseen negative consequences, but that the people who created and maintained racial disparities at premier institutions of higher education across the United States firmly believed they had good intentions in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The case of the University of Michigan fits into a broader pattern at elite institutions of higher education and is a cautionary tale for all in higher education. Inclusion has always been a secondary priority and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses across the United States.Histories of American education.African American college studentsCivil rightsMichiganAnn ArborUniversities and collegesMichiganAnn ArborAdmissionRacism in higher educationMichiganAnn ArborAffirmative action programs in educationMichiganAnn ArborDiscrimination in higher educationMichiganAnn Arboraffermative action, diversity, black power, civi.rights, University of Michigan.African American college studentsCivil rightsUniversities and collegesAdmission.Racism in higher educationAffirmative action programs in educationDiscrimination in higher education378.774/35Johnson Matthew459272DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910794190803321Undermining racial justice3855312UNINA