{"product_id":"the-state-must-provide-the-definitive-history-of-racial-inequality-in-american-higher-education-9780062976505","title":"The State Must Provide: The Definitive History of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer.\" --Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica's colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or accessibility, but on educating--and prioritizing--white students. Black students have always been an afterthought. While governments and private donors funnel money into majority white schools, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and other institutions that have high enrollments of Black students, are struggling to survive, with state legislatures siphoning away federal funds that are legally owed to these schools. In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an education, pivotal Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, and the government's role in creating and upholding a segregated education system. He explores the role that Civil War-era legislation intended to bring agricultural education to the masses had in creating the HBCUs that have played such a major part in educating Black students when other state and private institutions refused to accept them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe State Must Provide is the definitive chronicle of higher education's failed attempts at equality and the long road still in front of us to remedy centuries of racial discrimination--and poses a daring solution to help solve the underfunding of HBCUs. Told through a vivid cast of characters, The State Must Provide examines what happened before and after schools were supposedly integrated in the twentieth century, and why higher education remains broken to this day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did a system designed for white students actively sabotage Black achievement for centuries--and what is the path forward?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSystemic Racism in Education: \u003c\/b\u003e Go beyond the headlines to understand the legal and political architecture of racial inequality, from the Antebellum South to the present day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHistorically Black Colleges and Universities: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover the fraught history and vital importance of HBCUs, institutions created in response to segregation that continue to be systematically underfunded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLandmark Legal Battles: \u003c\/b\u003e From \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e and beyond, follow the decades-long legal war waged by Black Americans for the right to an equal education.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCivil Rights History: \u003c\/b\u003e Meet the vivid cast of characters--students, activists, and educators--who risked everything to fight for educational equity and social justice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062976505","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45398344138889,"sku":"9780062976505","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_eab8735e-444a-44ed-ae21-e5eb5a8ce4af.jpg?v=1773729301","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-state-must-provide-the-definitive-history-of-racial-inequality-in-american-higher-education-9780062976505","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}