Engaging the "race question" : accountability and equity in U.S. higher education / Alicia C. Dowd, Estela Mara Bensimon.

SeriesMulticultural education series
Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Contents Remediating "race talk" -- Enacting justice as care -- Enacting justice as fairness -- Enacting justice as transformation -- Designing equitable institutions.
Abstract This book is for anyone who is troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Synthesizing equity standards based on three theories of justice--justice as fairness, justice as care, and justice as transformation--the authors provide strategies for enacting equity in practice on college campuses.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Dowd, Alicia C. Engaging the "race question" 9780807756096
Genre/formCase studies
Genre/formCase studies.
Genre/formÉtudes de cas.
ISBN9780807773468 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0807773468 (electronic bk.)