Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, The

A revised edition of the classic text, illuminating the linkages between race and higher education.Why is it that as we enter the twenty-first century, the nation's predominantly white colleges and universities continue to be settings where people of color feel unwelcome and marginalized? The contributors to this volume dissect a variety of structural and attitudinal factors that are prevalent in the higher education community, organizational constructs and value orientations which seem to hark more to the past than to the future. They comment on the political, social, and economic factors that have shaped academic culture, and buttressed its quietly efficient maintenance of racially discriminatory practices.>William A. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah and is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Diversity in Higher Education. Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan Chair in Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. Kofi Lomotey is President of Fort Valley State University.