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Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line

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 | #1788724 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2010-02-15 |  2010-01-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.00 x6.40l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 298 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Ever wondered why so little has changed for minorities in engineering? Read this book.|By Donna Riley|This book is a must read for anyone concerned about "diversity" or "broadening participation" in engineering. I use these terms in quotes because Professor Slaton illustrates vibrantly through very readable historical case studies exactly why conceptualizing racial inequality i| |Race, Rigor and Selectivity is an important contribution to understanding the historical institutional and individual challenges in attracting, retaining, and advancing underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines. Most significantly,

Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education ...

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