Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education

by Eugene Y. Lowe Jr.

Issues of diversity and affirmative action have turned elite higher education in the United States into contested terrain. Rights revolutions in the country have raised hopes that have proved difficult to fulfill. Most particularly, expectations about access and opportunity--redressing the unfairness of the past--have collided with widely held beliefs: that educational institutions should treat each person fairly as an individual and should promote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004897
• ISBN13: 9780691004891
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"