Diversity Library

Race and Civil Rights

Race Still Matters. Michelle Asha Cooper and David A. Longanecker . Inside Higher Ed. 9/3/09.

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. Hasan Jeffries. By an Ohio State professor who studied at Duke. A rising star.

 

Higher Education

Where I Must Go. Angela Jackson. 2009 New Novel About a Young Black Woman Who Enters an Elite, Predominantly White University in the Late 1960s

Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities. William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson: (NOT) CROSSING THE FINISH LINE: New book finds large gaps in graduation rates at flagship universities, raising questions about how rates are measured, standardized tests, "mismatch," critique of affirmative action, community colleges, and more: Complete book review

National Center for Education Statistics Annual Report, "Projections of Education Statistics to 2018,"

No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford. Book Review

Affirmative Action for the Future. James T. Sterba. Cornell University Press. 2009. Author interview

Graduate School

Factors that Influence Science and Engineering Graduate Student Diversity: Results of a Rice Faculty Survey. Richard Tapia, Cynthia Lanius, Baine Alexander.Sept 2003.