Silence at Boalt Hall
Subtitle: the dismantling of affirmative action
By: Andrea Guerrero.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. School of Law -- Admission.; Affirmative action programs in education -- Law and legislation -- California.; Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- California.
Description: The thirty-year story of students, faculty, and administratiors struggling with the politics of race in higher education at UC Berkeley's prestigious law school--one of the first institutions to implement affirmative action policies and one of the first to be forced to remove them. Andrea Guerrero is a member of the last class of students admitted at Boalt Hall under affirmative action policies. [back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Balancing the scales; title: Pursuing excellence; title: Dismantling diversity; title: Reaching for answers; title: Listening to the silence.