Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807080403 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good insights. Sheryll Cashin is a lawyer first and Good insights. Sheryll Cashin is a lawyer first and writer second, so not always the best structure. However, what she has to say is important, so worth reading.. Thought provoking George M. Wade I went to high school with the author so I am a little biased since I admire her. Even so, I want to say that I found the book thoughtful and thought provoking. Her argument is strong because she uses reason, experience, and data. You feel like a real person is talking to you. I particularly enjoyed the references to our beloved and sadly nearly defunct S R Butler High, a symptom of some. "Thought Provoking But Incomplete" according to Kevin L. Nenstiel. American race relations rests at a crossroads. While white Americans believe we've expunged our Jim Crow legacy, African Americans still recognize opportunities lost to wildly unequal resource allocation. At the heart of this disjunction lies Affirmative Action, Lyndon Johnson's attempt to proactively redress historical injustice. In today's putatively post-racial society, with an Africa
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. 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. 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
America is segregated by a devastating mixture of economics and race. The place to begin, she argues in her brilliant new book, is an affirmative action that responds directly to the failure of the Brown decision to desegregate schools. Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America From the Hardcover edition.. Deeply knowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. “A sensible proposal backed by hard data.”—Kirkus Reviews“Cashin sketches the legal and political history of affirmative action, and attends to both resentful whites (Obama’s 'election seems to have exacerbated the perception gap about racial inequality') and advantaged blacks ('Economic elites of all colors enjoy b
Cashin has published widely in academic journals and print media and is a frequent commentator on law and race relations, having appeared on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and numerous other outlets. Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is the author of The Agitator’s Daughter and The Failures of Integration. She lives with her husband and two sons in Washington, DC. . Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her pare