Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.s. Engineering - The History of an Occupational Color Line

Informationen zum Autor Amy E. Slaton is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University. Klappentext Focusing on engineering programs in three settings-Maryland! Illinois! and Texas! from the 1940s through the 1990s-Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering! and of specific institutional processes. Zusammenfassung Focusing on engineering programs in three settings—Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s—Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes.

Product details

• Authors: Amy E. Slaton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2010
• EAN: 9780674036192
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03619-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, Geography, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, United States of America, USA, Engineering: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Social discrimination and social justice