商品簡介
From its inception in the 1960s, affirmative action has created heated debates about how to deal with past and present racism within the arena of education. Speaker, consultant and author Wise believes educators should heed the warning signs of the demise of affirmative action, and openly discuss its tenets and applications at the root level, deciding not so much whether institutions "should have racial preference for people of color" as whether they should "continue to have racial preference for whites." He describes how affirmative action worked in the past and how it works now, how white racial preference (in terms of standardized tests and attention to socio-cultural elements not available to people of color) continues in education, and how supporters should respond to critics of affirmative action. He closes with an examination of affirmative action as more than a tool of "diversity." Wise's notes also serve as his bibliography. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Tim J. Wise is the Race and Ethnicity Editor for LIP magazine. He speaks, writes, and advocates across the country to dismantle racism.
