TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Matthew TI - Undermining racial justice: how one university embraced inclusion and inequality T2 - Histories of American education SN - 9781501748608 AV - LC212.422.M5 J64 2020 U1 - 378.774/35 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - University of Michigan KW - Admission KW - fast KW - Discrimination in higher education KW - Michigan KW - Ann Arbor KW - Affirmative action programs in education KW - Racism in higher education KW - Universities and colleges KW - African American college students KW - Civil rights KW - Discrimination dans l'enseignement supérieur KW - Programmes d'action positive en éducation KW - Racisme dans l'enseignement supérieur KW - Universités KW - Étudiants noirs américains KW - Droits KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Preserving Inequality -- Bones and Sinews -- The Origins of Affirmative Action -- Rise of the Black Action Movement -- Controlling Inclusion -- Affirmative Action for Whom? -- Sustaining Racial Retrenchment -- The Michigan Mandate -- Gratz v. Bollinger -- Epilogue : The University as Victim N2 - "In this book, Matthew Johnson focuses on the University of Michigan-an institution at the epicenter of the struggle over what racial justice should look like in practice in American higher education. In 1963, Michigan became one of the first post-secondary institutions in the United States to create an affirmative action admissions program. Since then, Michigan administrators have been on the frontlines of implementing and defending race-conscious solutions to inequality. Johnson analyzes the five-decade fight, from the early 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century, over what racial justice should look like at the University of Michigan. He finds that, over time, the early linkage between racial equality and social and economic justice became attenuated. The rise of the language of diversity as the goal of Michigan's admissions program signaled the decline of social and economic justice as a stated or even implicit goal of admissions policy"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2283180 ER -