{"product_id":"undermining-racial-justice-9781501748585","title":"Undermining Racial Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson''s powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often a key talking point in national debates about racial justice thanks to the contentious \u003ci\u003eGratz v. Bollinger\u003c\/i\u003e 2003 Supreme Court case, Johnson argues that UM leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution''s policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. Despite knowing that racial disparities would likely continue, Johnson demonstrates that these administrators improbably saw themselves as champions of racial equity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Johnson contends in \u003ci\u003eUndermining Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is not that good inte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf I were asked to identify a single book published in 2020 that profoundly changed the way I look at higher education, it would be Matthew Johnson's \u003ci\u003eUndermining Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his groundbreaking book, \u003ci\u003eUndermining Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Johnson does an excellent job examining how, over the last sixty years, 'campus leaders embraced racial inclusion only so far as it could coexist with [their] long-standing values and priorities.' As Johnson writes, we must understand the policies and the people who created them if we are to ever understand that 'inequality is a choice' and that we can 'demand choices that lead to equality.' We must remain vigilant, and \u003ci\u003eUndermining Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e will help us fight back.\u003c\/p\u003e * History of Education Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Johnson's\u003ci\u003e Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critical account of how the University of Michigan, long heralded as an exemplar of campus diversity policy, made racial inclusion compatible with inequality, largely through co-optation of the demands of student activists over decades. Though Johnson examines the implementation of race-access policy at the Michigan over a fifty-year period, his insights are fruitful for a contemporary landscape rife with threats to affirmative action, critique of diversity rhetoric, and proposed reform. Johnson's text greatly contributes to scholarship on affirmative action in higher education, the bureaucracy of diversity, and more broadly policy making and social movement demobilization.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Preserving Inequality\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bones and Sinews\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Origins of Affirmative Action\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Rise of the Black Campus Movement\u003cbr\u003e 4. Controlling Inclusion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Affirmative Action for Whom?\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sustaining Racial Retrenchment\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Michigan Mandate\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eGratz v. Bollinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The University as Victim\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409343062359,"sku":"9781501748585","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501748585.jpg?v=1730506489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/undermining-racial-justice-9781501748585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}