Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action
 
Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four-year public colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they too have retreated.

For law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin, this isn’t entirely bad news, because as she argues, affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. The truly disadvantaged—black and brown children trapped in high-poverty environs—are not getting the quality schooling they need in part because backlash and wedge politics undermine any possibility for common-sense public policies. Using place instead of race in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders.

In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, arguing that college applicants who have thrived despite exposure to neighborhood or school poverty are deserving of special consideration. Those blessed to have come of age in poverty-free havens are not. Sixty years since the historic decision, we’re undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Her proposals include making standardized tests optional, replacing merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid, and recruiting high-achieving students from overlooked places, among other steps that encourage cross-racial alliances and social mobility.
 
A call for action toward the long overdue promise of equality, Place, Not Race persuasively shows how the social costs of racial preferences actually outweigh any of the marginal benefits when effective race-neutral alternatives are available.

Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin

From reader reviews:

Robert Alleman:

The book Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America give you a sense of feeling enjoy for your spare time. You can utilize to make your capable much more increase. Book can to become your best friend when you getting pressure or having big problem with your subject. If you can make examining a book Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America to be your habit, you can get far more advantages, like add your personal capable, increase your knowledge about many or all subjects. You can know everything if you like wide open and read a publication Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America. Kinds of book are several. It means that, science e-book or encyclopedia or other people. So , how do you think about this guide?

Charlie Attwood:

Book is to be different for each and every grade. Book for children until finally adult are different content. We all know that that book is very important for all of us. The book Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America had been making you to know about other understanding and of course you can take more information. It is quite advantages for you. The e-book Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America is not only giving you much more new information but also being your friend when you feel bored. You can spend your own personal spend time to read your book. Try to make relationship together with the book Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America. You never truly feel lose out for everything in case you read some books.

Bruce Smith:

This book untitled Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America to be one of several books that best seller in this year, honestly, that is because when you read this book you can get a lot of benefit into it. You will easily to buy this book in the book store or you can order it by means of online. The publisher of the book sells the e-book too. It makes you quicker to read this book, as you can read this book in your Smartphone. So there is no reason for your requirements to past this guide from your list.

Margaret Pace:

As a college student exactly feel bored to be able to reading. If their teacher asked them to go to the library as well as to make summary for some guide, they are complained. Just little students that has reading's spirit or real their passion. They just do what the teacher want, like asked to go to the library. They go to right now there but nothing reading very seriously. Any students feel that reading through is not important, boring and can't see colorful images on there. Yeah, it is being complicated. Book is very important for you. As we know that on this period of time, many ways to get whatever you want. Likewise word says, ways to reach Chinese's country. So , this Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America can make you truly feel more interested to read.