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000347640 1001_ $$aSlaton, Amy E.,$$d1957-
000347640 24510 $$aRace, rigor, and selectivity in U.S. engineering :$$bthe history of an occupational color line /$$cAmy E. Slaton.
000347640 2463_ $$aRace, rigor, and selectivity in United States engineering
000347640 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2010.
000347640 300__ $$axiv, 281 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000347640 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000347640 5201_ $$a"Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully under-represented in the fields of science. technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment. what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race?" "Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings - in Maryland, Illinois. and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s - Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering. and of specific institutional processes - ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession."--BOOK JACKET.
000347640 650_0 $$aEngineering$$xStudy and teaching$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000347640 650_0 $$aDiscrimination in education$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
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