Jenkins, Laura Dudley (Ed.)

Affirmative action matters : creating opportunities for students around the world edited by Laura Dudley Jenkins and Michele S. Moses. - New York : Routledge, 2014. - 221 p. - (International studies in higher education) .

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. National vicissitudes in higher education affirmative action policies
Chapter 2. Assessing affirmative action programs on six continents
Chapter 3. India: Beginning a new debate on reserved admissions for castes, tribes and "Other Backward Classes"
Chapter 4. Bulgaria: Social justice and privileged access to higher education in a totalitarian society, 1944-1989
Chapter 5. The United States: The changing context of access to higher education
Chapter 6. South Africa: Affirming affirmative action through university alternate access programs
Chapter 7. Brazil: Enhancing opportunity and justice through new affirmative action policies for black and mixed-race students
Chapter 8. France: Affirmative action in French higher education -squaring the circle
Chapter 9. Affirmative action matters: Social justice in the era of diversity


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