Undermining Racial Justice

How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality

Matthew Johnson

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Cornell University Press
15 April 2020

History of the Americas; Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Universities

Series: Histories of American Education

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.

By: Matthew Johnson
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501748585
ISBN 10: 1501748580
Series: Histories of American Education
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 April 2020
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Washington & Jefferson College. Follow him on X @matthist83.

Reviews for Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality

If I were asked to identify a single book published in 2020 that profoundly changed the way I look at higher education, it would be Matthew Johnson's Undermining Racial Justice. * Inside Higher Ed *