Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality
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Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.
This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often a key talking point in national debates about racial justice thanks to the contentious Gratz v. Bollinger 2003 Supreme Court case, Johnson argues that UM leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. Despite knowing that racial disparities would likely continue, Johnson demonstrates that these administrators improbably saw themselves as champions of racial equity.
What Johnson contends in Undermining Racial Justice is not that good intentions resulted in unforeseen negative consequences, but that the people who created and maintained racial inequities at premier institutions of higher education across the United States firmly believed they had good intentions in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The case of the University of Michigan fits into a broader pattern at elite colleges and universities and is a cautionary tale for all in higher education. As Matthew Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.
Matthew Johnson
Dr. Matthew A. Johnson, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, has been working in the Mental Health Field since 1982. He is a husband, father of four children, author, international speaker, and Bigfoot Researcher and Interactionist. He met his wife, Cynthia, at their 30th high school reunion. Cynthia works as a Computer Systems Supervisor for a large Law Enforcement Agency in the State of Washington. Dr. Johnson wrote Positive Parenting with a Plan. He has trained thousands of professionals and parents all over the USA, Canada, and around the world. Dr. Johnson spoke at the World Family Therapy Conference in Portugal in 2008. He obtained his BSW from the University of Alaska at Anchorage (U.A.A.) where he played collegiate basketball on a full-ride scholarship. He scored his first two-points on ESPN TV against North Carolina in the Great Alaska Shootout and got half his picture in Sports Illustrated magazine. His silly teammate was in the way of the other half. Dr. Johnson obtained his MSW from Rutgers University and received hi MA and Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degrees from George Fox University. Finally, Dr. Johnson is the author of Bigfoot: A Fifty-Year Journey Come Full Circle. You must read his first Bigfoot book before you read this book. Dr. Johnson is a passionate and entertaining speaker.
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