April 11, 2003
Outstanding Colleges Are Outstanding Because of Their Diversity, Scholar Contends
Without policies that take race into account, the admissions processes of many selective colleges unfairly favor white students, says Sarah Susannah Willie, an associate professor of sociology and chairwoman of the black-studies program at Swarthmore College.
"That fact is rarely articulated," she writes in her new book, Acting Black: College, Identity and the Performance of Race (Routledge).
Though white students don't generally think of themselves as racially privileged, she
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