Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy: Making the Case for Study/Struggle
| Autor: | Sandy Grande, Leslie A. Williams |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Affirmative action
Higher education business.industry 05 social sciences Higher education policy 050301 education Public administration 0506 political science Anthropology Political science 050602 political science & public administration Access to Higher Education business 0503 education Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative Inquiry. 29:432-445 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7565 1077-8004 |
| Popis: | This essay highlights the limits of liberal reform policies designed to increase access to higher education for minoritized and marginalized groups. First, we discuss Trump’s higher education agenda, focusing on his antipathy toward these populations and his commitment to White supremacy. We then focus on affirmative action in college admissions as an exemplar of a liberal racial equity policy, sketching its history, which illustrates its anemic effect, and White countermobilization against change that existed long before Trump. Next, we detail Trump’s efforts to eliminate this policy, which is part of the same populist, ethno-nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Black ideological campaign that has galvanized White voters across time. Ultimately, we argue that unbridled power won’t yield to liberal reforms. As such, we shift our focus to how higher education might be reimagined as a site of transformation, offering a series of provocations for a new horizon of racial equity in universities and society. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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