Color and Money
How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action
Schmidt, Peter
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BOOK SUMMARY
What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action in college admissions? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt reveals truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He exposes issues such as:
* The hidden agendas of conserv
BOOK SYNOPSIS
What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:
* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;
* conservatives have used opposition to affirmative action to advance a broader agenda that includes gutting government programs that help level the playing field;
* selective colleges reward families for shielding their children from contact with other races and classes and help perpetuate societal discrimination by favoring applicants from expensive private schools or public schools in exclusive communities;
* racial tensions like those witnessed at Duke University, the University of Michigan, and scores of other campuses in recent decades are a direct result of college admissions policies;
* affirmative-action preferences for women and minorities may have survived recent court challenges, but in much of the nation they are unlikely to survive the forces of democracy; and
* regardless of what happens with affirmative action, African Americans are going to be denied equal access to colleges for many decades to come unless American society undergoes revolutionary change.
This is a startling, brave, and thoroughly researched book that will ignite a national debate on class and education for years to come.
BOOK REVIEWS
Forget about religion, politics, sex, even race. The issue Americans are least likely to be able to discuss honestly is class. Peter Schmidts Color and Money is a forthright examination of the inequalities we must start talking about if we are ever going to achieve a semblance of equality. Anyone interested in the inequities of the selective college admissions process will find Color and Money clear-eyed, hard-hitting, enlightening, and informative.--Rachel Toor, author of Admissions Confidential: An Insiders Account of the Elite College Selection Process An indispensable guide to the debate over affirmative action in the United States.-- Michael Lind, author of The Next American Nation "For those concerned about why the march toward social justice in America has faltered badly for nearly forty years now at the hands of the nation's entrenched political and economic systems, Peter Schmidt's Color and Money is a highly instructive--and greatly disturbing--guidepost. Focusing on higher education as the touchstone for halting the growing class polarization in the United States, Schmidt chronicles how the often grudging acquiescence to racial integration and affirmative action has been further undermined by a cynical and callous power elite that has left us with little more than what he calls 'the delusions of meritocracy.' For those hopeful of halting this retrogression and persuading our countrymen to undertake the sacrifices needed to redirect the nation toward its promise of universal equality of opportunity, this book lucidly lays out the daunting task ahead of them."--Richard Kluger, author of Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403976015
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403976017
Dewey Decimal: 379.2/6
Library of Congress: 2007007039
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 263
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