Black students at elite colleges still demand what was demanded decades ago
Evidence
And because black enrollment at predominantly white institutions has not increased significantly over time, today’s black students often find themselves fighting last century’s civil rights battles over representation and fair treatment. At Emory University, where I teach, the undergraduate student population is just 8 percent black; a former student activist pointed out that a 2015 list of demands for a more equitable campus was depressingly similar to a list from 1969. … “All of these things historically have been asked for time and time again, and time and time again, the University has somehow pushed it to the side,” former residence hall director and graduate Troizel Carr told the student newspaper. “Fifty years ago, students that looked like me were asking the same questions…and to this day, we still have not gotten the same things. And that’s frustrating.” Among the unmet demands, forty-six years apart, were increases in black faculty and administrators, and counseling services geared toward the experiences of black students in predominantly white environments. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 278
Categorization
- QUESTION: At Emory, black enrollment is 8 percent. Useful concrete figure if the article discusses elite institutions’ tax-exempt status and diversity failure.
- XREF: connects to: Black students demanded antiracist overhaul of universities in 1967 — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1004; Concern over black demands’ legitimacy defines modern symbolic racism
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black students demanded antiracist overhaul of universities in 1967 — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1004; Concern over black demands’ legitimacy defines modern symbolic racism
Broader Connections
- Black students demanded antiracist overhaul of universities in 1967
#corroborates(0.95) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1004