The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education

Continuing Challenges for the Twenty-first Century, Revised Edition

William A. Smith, Philip G. Altbach, Kofi Lomotey, William A. Smith, Philip G. Altbach, Kofi Lomotey

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780791452363, 9780791452356
• eBook ISBN: 9780791489376
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

"Why is it that as we enter the twenty-first century, the nation's predominantly white colleges and universities continue to be settings where people of color feel unwelcome and marginalized? The contributors to this volume dissect a variety of structural and attitudinal factors that are prevalent in the higher education community, organizational constructs and value orientations which seem to hark more to the past than to the future. They comment on the political, social, and economic factors that have shaped academic culture, and buttressed its quietly efficient maintenance of racially discriminatory practices. "The American system of higher education is often regarded as the best in the world. Smith, Altbach, and Lomotey have edited a volume that implicitly asks how much better still it could be if it embraced people of color and provided them with a supportive and nurturing environment, one which encouraged them to reach their fullest creative and intellectual potential. Indeed, this will probably be the most significant challenge that the academy faces in the twenty-first century." — William B. Harvey, Vice President and Director, Office of Minorities in Higher Education American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.

Table of contents

• THE RACIAL CRISIS IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Race in American Higher Education: Historical Perspectives on Current Conditions
• 2. Race in Higher Education: The Continuing Crisis
• 3. The Changing Demographics: Problems and Opportunities
• 4. Twentieth-Century Desegregationin U.S. Higher Education: A Review of Five Distinct Historical Eras
• 5. Racial Ideology in the Campus Community: Emerging Cross-Ethnic Differences and Challenges
• 6. Creating a Climate of Inclusion: Understanding Latina/o College Students
• 7. New Challenges of Representing Asian American Students in U.S. Higher Education
• 8. Educational Choices and a University’s: ReputationThe Importance of Collective Memory
• 9. Outsiders Within: Race, Gender, and Faculty Status in U.S. Higher Education
• 10. White Racism among White Faculty: From Critical Understanding to Antiracist Activism
• 11. A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Barriers thatImpede the Success of Faculty of Color
• 12. Affirmative Action in a Post-Hopwood Era
• About the Contributors
• Index
• SUNY series, Frontiers in Education