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Demise Of The Talented Tenth: Affirmative Action And The Increasing Underrepresentation Of Ascendant Blacks At Selective Educational Institutions, Kevin D. Brown, Jeannine Bell Jan 2008

Demise Of The Talented Tenth: Affirmative Action And The Increasing Underrepresentation Of Ascendant Blacks At Selective Educational Institutions, Kevin D. Brown, Jeannine Bell

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Over the past 30 years America has experienced both a substantial increase in the percentage of blacks multiracial blacks and an unprecedented influx of voluntary immigration of blacks primarily from Africa and the Caribbean. The percentage of foreign-born black immigrants reached 8% of the black population in 2005, and no doubt is higher today. There is evidence that suggests not only that multiracial blacks and foreign-born black immigrants and their sons and daughters constitute a disproportionate percentage of black students in selective higher education programs, but their percentages are larger than most people realize. This article addresses the resulting change …


Lessons Learned From Comparing The Application Of Constitutional Law And Anti-Discrimination Law To African Americans In The U.S. And Dalits In India In The Context Of Higher Education, Kevin D. Brown, Vinay Sitapati Jan 2008

Lessons Learned From Comparing The Application Of Constitutional Law And Anti-Discrimination Law To African Americans In The U.S. And Dalits In India In The Context Of Higher Education, Kevin D. Brown, Vinay Sitapati

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In this Article the authors will compare the development of constitutional law and federal anti-discrimination law in the context of higher education of African-Americans in the U.S. and Dalits in India. Both groups suffer from oppression and discrimination based upon a hereditary trait and related to their integration into mainstream society; neither group is completely isolated from the majority population responsible for the discrimination; and African-Americans and Dalits approximate similar percentages of their country's population. Based upon the 2000 census, African-Americans constitute 12.7% of the American populations, and, according to the 1991 Census Report of India, Dalits make up 16.5% …


Laboring In The Academic Marketplace: The Case For Tenure, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt Jan 1997

Laboring In The Academic Marketplace: The Case For Tenure, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

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After Defunis: Filling The Constitutional Vacuum, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1975

After Defunis: Filling The Constitutional Vacuum, Robert M. O'Neil

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Preferential Admissions: Equalizing The Access Of Minority Groups To Higher Education, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1971

Preferential Admissions: Equalizing The Access Of Minority Groups To Higher Education, Robert M. O'Neil

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Academic Freedom -- Its Basic Philosophy, Function, And History, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1963

Academic Freedom -- Its Basic Philosophy, Function, And History, Ralph F. Fuchs

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Book Review. Byse, C., And Joughin, L., Tenure In American Higher Education, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1959

Book Review. Byse, C., And Joughin, L., Tenure In American Higher Education, Ralph F. Fuchs

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Why Colleges And Universities?, Hugh Evander Willis Apr 1927

Why Colleges And Universities?, Hugh Evander Willis

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