The Chronicle of Higher Education

Class Rules: the Fiction of Egalitarian Higher Education

By PETER SACKS

The U.S. Supreme Court's momentous rulings affirming the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions promise to institutionalize, well into the foreseeable future, the role of race in creating an equitable society. For various reasons, not the least of which is the uniquely American notion that we are an utterly mobile nation of individuals,...

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