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Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education
reviewed by Adalberto Aguirre Jr - 2003 Title: Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education
Author(s): Robert A. Ibarra Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison ISBN: 0299169049 , Pages: 323, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com I am often apprehensive of book titles that use certain keywords
such as “beyond” because they imply that the book
extends itself over customary boundaries. Beyond
Affirmative Action is such a book. Beyond Affirmative
Action continues the discussion regarding academia’s
resistance to diversity and multicultural initiatives. Ibarra
focuses on this issue by examining the micro-context of higher
education, the operation of cognitive processes and social
mechanisms that victimize difference by hiding diversity within
organizational culture. He argues that if higher education
were to accept the idea that multiple ways of seeing the world are
not just competitive mindsets but have the potential of building
collaborative frameworks, then higher education would become more
inclusive of diversity. As such, diversity, operating as
multicontextuality, would reframe the context for higher
education.
So, where does affirmative action come into play? It
doesn’t. Beyond Affirmative Action is a very
concise, comprehensive discussion on reframing the context of
graduate education for Latinos. As such, the book addresses a
timely topic. However, it does not meet the book
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- Adalberto Aguirre Jr
University of California-Riverside E-mail Author ADALBERTO AGUIRRE, JR. is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching interests are in social inequality, the sociology of education, formal organizations, critical race theory and sociolinguistics. Professor Aguirre's research has focused on workplace issues for women and minority faculty, the relationship between race and death sentencing, the role of the master narrative in the social sciences, and the association between bilingual proficiency and grammatical knowledge.
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