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Książka Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering Amy E. Slaton

Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering

The History of an Occupational Color Line

Autor: Amy E. Slaton
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Harvard University Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Amer...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Amy E. Slaton
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2010
strony
298
EAN
9780674036192
ISBN
0674036190
Enbook ID
04635401
Wydawca
Harvard University Press
Waga
594
Wymiary
166 x 244 x 25

Pełny opis

Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 per cent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race? "Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering" pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings - in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s - Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes - ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession.

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