- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Identity and Uplift: Engineering in the University of Maryland System in the Era of Segregation
- 3. The Disunity of Technical Knowledge: Constructions of Racial Difference in Separate but Equal Engineering Education
- 4. Opportunity in the City: Engineering Education in Chicago, 1960–1980
- 5. Urban Engineering and the Conservative Impulse: Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology
- 6. Race and the New Meritocracy: Engineering Education in the Texas A&M System, 1980 to the Present
- 7. Standards and the “Problem” of Affirmative Action: Departures from Convention in the TAMU System
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering
The History of an Occupational Color Line
Product Details
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$64.00 • £55.95 • €58.95
ISBN 9780674036192
Publication Date: 02/15/2010
Awards & Accolades
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2010
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