Affirmative Action and the Rumor of Black Inferiority

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: June 30, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Jennifer L. Hochshild
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
06-30-1995
Affirmative Action and the Rumor of Black Inferiority.

Black intellectuals such as Shelby Steele and Stephen L. Carter have argued with considerable force that in a meritocratic society affirmative action in higher education does personal and professional harm to those whom it ostensibly benefits. In this article Princeton Professor Jennifer L. Hochschild challenges this view. In most cases, she contends, those who are granted preferences are neither hurt nor professionally diminished as a result of personal or ...

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