The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966—1978
The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966—1978

Author: Miguel Espinoza

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1498531636

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In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large cohorts of minority students under non-traditional standards, and sending them into the world as emissaries of integration upon graduation. Together, these students bent the arc of educational equality, and the LEOP served as a model for similar programs around the country. Drawing upon rich historical archives and interviews with dozens of students and professors who helped integrate UCLA, this book argues that such programs should be reinstituted—and with haste—because affirmative action worked.

The Bibliography of Africa
The Bibliography of Africa

Author: James Douglas Pearson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780714623948

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First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: David Ernest Apter

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780813914794

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Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosenberg have been among the leading American scholars in African Studies. In this volume they, along with other major specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reasses the theoretical debates ad empirical themes that have characterized postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on "new realism" that has emerged among Africanists since the dismantling of colonial rule, the essays are presented as a corrective both to the initial euphoria informing African studies and to the later tendency to place blame for all Africa's political and economic difficulties on the receding specter of colonial oppression.

The Politics of Knowledge
The Politics of Knowledge

Author: David L. Szanton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-09-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780520245365

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The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields’ distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.