Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Author’s Note vii
4. Introduction xii
5. 1 Colorblind Higher Education Policy in a Racially Stratified Society 1
6. 2 Cumulative Racial Inequalities and the Path to College 46
7. 3 The Tradition of Exclusion 91
8. 4 The Civil Rights Revolution and the War on Poverty: A Color-Conscious Rights Policy Worked 115
9. 5 Colorblindness Reigns: Four Decades of Inequality in a Transforming Society 143
10. 6 Deep Changes for Real Gains 188
11. 7 Strategies 198
12. Commentary 263
13. Commentary 281
14. Notes 295
15. Bibliography 327
16. Index 351
17. OUR COMPELLING INTERESTS 363