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Author Harris, Adam, (Journalist), author.

Title The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right / Adam Harris.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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Edition First edition.
Description 259 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Contents Part I: Built. The roots ; A compromise ; The fall of integrated education -- Part II: Defended. The tragedy of Lloyd Gaines ; A new guinea pig ; "Segregated as conditions allow" -- Part III: Failed. This whole facade ; Thirteen years a remedy, thirty years a fight, two centuries a struggle ; What hath we wrought.
Summary Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
Subject Discrimination in higher education -- United States -- History.
Racism in higher education -- United States -- History.
Segregation in higher education -- United States -- History.
Education, Higher -- United States -- Finance -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
EDUCATION / Higher.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Discrimination in higher education. (OCoLC)fst00895076
Education, Higher -- Finance. (OCoLC)fst00903056
Racism in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01744191
Segregation in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01111230
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
Instructional and educational works.
Other Form: Online version: Harris, Adam (Journalist). State must provide. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] 9780062976499 (OCoLC)1263359939
ISBN 9780062976482 (hardcover)
0062976486 (hardcover)
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