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March 5, 2000




November 9, 2007

"College Admissions as Conspiracy Theory"

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY

Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action by Peter Schmidt (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)

The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities by John Aubrey Douglass (Stanford University Press, 2007)

The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges by Joseph A. Soares (Stanford University Press, 2007)

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education By Peter Sacks (University of California Press, 2007)


 

 

April 16, 2000


PRICE OF DEFIANCE: JAMES MEREDITH AND THE INTEGRATION OF OLE MISS
by Charles W. Eagles
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

first appearing in

Southern Studies: An Interdsciplinary Journal of the South

 

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