Adam Harris on Racial Inequity in Higher Education and How ‘The State Must Provide'

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A 2018 analysis by the Center for American Progress estimates that state colleges allocate more than $1,000 less per year for Black and Latinx students than white students. Americas colleges and universities have a dirty open secret: they have never given Black people an equal chance to succeed, writes Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris in his new book, The State Must Provide. Harris traces the laws and practices that established racial inequality and segregation in higher education back to slave codes through Plessy v. Ferguson and the overturning of affirmative action policies. He joins us to discuss this history of racial exclusion and segregation and his argument that financial support of historically Black colleges and universities could act as a form of reparations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Historically black colleges and universities have seen a surge of applications,
0:51.6	enrollments, and donations in recent years.
0:54.1	In a new book, The State Must Provide, Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris places HBCUs within
0:59.6	the broader development of American education and the struggle for equal rights and opportunity.
1:04.7	Like so many other facets of American life, the structural racism in higher education isn't even
1:08.9	hidden so much as normalized.
1:14.8	Harris writes, America's colleges and universities have a dirty open secret.
1:17.7	They have never given black people an equal chance to succeed.
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