Precis on "Access And Equity For African American Students In Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis Of Policy Efforts" (MWP3)

In the article “Access And Equity For African American Students In Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis Of Policy Efforts” (2009) by Shaun Harper, Lori Patton, and Ontario Wooden, the authors claim that attacks on Affirmative Action policies and unequal funding to colleges that have a large African-American student body cause unequal access to higher education for minorities. To support this, the authors apply Critical Race Theory, which states that racism will exist no matter what and that even if policies attempt to prevent racism, it will continue to exist; the authors use this application to argue that there is a lack of equity between races despite the policies in place. The purpose of this article is to present the idea of a historical application of Critical Race Theory in order to show that inequity amongst races still exists in higher education. The intended audience for this article is a group of educated people because of the length and format of the article: the article is 27 pages long, which is longer than most casual reading, and is organized in a very formal, lab-report style.

Harper, Shaun R., Lori D. Patton, and Ontario S. Wooden. "Access And Equity For African American Students In Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis Of Policy Efforts." Journal Of Higher Education 80.4 (2009): 389-414. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Apr. 2012.