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  • Ebony Towers in Higher Education

    The Evolution, Mission, and Presidency of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    by Ronyelle Bertrand Ricard, M. Christopher Brown II ...
    What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered.This unique study examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Case for Affirmative Action on Campus

    Concepts of Equity, Considerations for Practice

    by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Denise O’Neil Green, David O. Stovall, M. Christopher Brown II ...
    * Marshalls the arguments for affirmative action* Offers strategies for actionWhy is affirmative action under attack? What were the policy’s original purposes, and have they been achieved? What are the arguments being arrayed against it? And–for all stakeholders concerned about equity and diversity on campus–what’s the way forward, politically, legally, and practically?The authors explore the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Broken Cisterns of African American Education

    Academic Performance and Achievement in the Post-Brown Era

    Edited by M. Christopher Brown, RoSusan D. Bartee ...
    Series series Research on African American Education
    The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post-segregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of post-segregated educational settings leads to the confusing and often conflicting interchangeable usage of terms ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • African American Males and Education

    Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity

    by T. Elon Dancy, M. Christopher Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts

    Edited by RoSusan D. Bartee ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts
    The edited volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, is timely in its unique and appropriate analyses of the prevailing internal and external dynamics of capital as indicative of the type of currency within institutional structures or the currency among individual stakeholders of education. The intersection of capital and currency emerges similarly and differently ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Whiteness Is the New South Africa

    Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism

    by Christopher B. Knaus, M. Christopher Brown II ...
    Series Book 17 - Critical Qualitative Research
    In 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world’s memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of hope. However, Mandela’s recent death has given birth to a more critical view of his «Rainbow Nation.» No matter how examined, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    An Introduction

    by Sharan B. Merriam, Ralph G. Brockett ...
    The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring.--Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, ... Read more

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  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

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  • Research In Multicultural Education

    From The Margins To The Mainstream

    by Carl A. Grant ...
    A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students. ... Read more

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  • Mismatch

    How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

    by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr ...
    The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law ... Read more

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  • The Public Policy Theory Primer

    by Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer ...
    Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and ... Read more

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  • Sociology of Education

    An A-to-Z Guide

    Edited by James Ainsworth ...
    The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from education, sociology, human development, family studies, economics, politics and public policy. Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide introduces students to the social constructions of our educational ... Read more

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