Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education

by Harold S Wechsler and Harold S. Wechsler

A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities--and how these students responded to these barriers.

Affirmative action in college admission is one of the most contested initiatives in contemporary federal policy, from its beginnings in the 1960s through the 2014 lawsuit alleging that Harvard discriminates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421441314
• ISBN13: 9781421441313
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 10.2"