Race, Law, and Higher Education in the Colorblind Era - Critical Investigations Into Race-Related Supreme Court Disputes

This book provides detailed analysis of Supreme Court judgments which have impacted the rights of minorities in relation to higher education, and so illustrates ongoing issues of racial discrimination throughout the American education sector.

List of contents

• Preface
• Introduction

Section I: Foundations of Colorblindness, Whiteness, and Racial Subordination

• Chapter 1 - Judicial Colorblindness and the Problem of Racism
• Chapter 2 - Commitments: Of Methods and Interpretation
• Chapter 3 - A Historical Synergy: Law, Whiteness, and the Hegemony of Racial Subordination

Section II: Revisiting and Revising 'Settled' History

• Chapter 4 - The Politics and Whiteness of Brown v. Board of Education
• Chapter 5 - (Un)Equal Protection and Disproportionate Harm to Minorities
• Chapter 6 - Affirmative Action = Discrimination (to whites) in the Colorblind Era

Section III: Critical Contemporary Perspectives

• Chapter 7 - After Fisher v. University of Texas: Racial Justice or Whiteness Rising?
• Chapter 8 - Diversity Trending Up, Affirmative Action on Life Support, and the Perilous Status of Asian Americans
• Chapter 9 - Future Directions

Selected bibliography

About the author

Hoang Vu Tran is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Summary

This book provides detailed analysis of Supreme Court judgments which have impacted the rights of minorities in relation to higher education, and so illustrates ongoing issues of racial discrimination throughout the American education sector.

Product details

• Authors: Hoang Vu Tran, Hoang Vu Tran
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367785826
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78582-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, United States of America, USA, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Education law, Education & the law