[lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Educa tion: Whats Race Got To Do With It?

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Fri Nov 20 20:21:52 PST 2009


At 04:51 PM 11/20/2009, c b wrote:
>Thanks for that. It fits with anecdotal evidence (embarssed smile) in
>Detroit. So, maybe it's mainly racism against Hispanics in privatizing
>higher education in Caly ?
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>CB
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>Dennis Claxton
> c b wrote:
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> >CB: OK. I'll play devil's advocate (smile). How about poverty has
> >something to do with it _and_ race has something to do with , both ?
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>I don't think anybody is going to argue with that. But the article
>we're talking about asserts and smooths over more than it enlightens.
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>For example, here's the first line:
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> >As the California population has grown more ethnically diverse
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>As I said yesterday, first of all this disappears the fact that
>California has been ethnically diverse for a very long time.

I didn't interpret it that way. Growing more ethnically diverse, doesn't mean you started from no ethnic diversity at all.


>Second,
>it smooths over or misses the fact that looked at from a different
>angle, California has become less diverse, not more:
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>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040524/ai_n14576840/

This doesn't indicate less ethnic diversity. It's point is to talk about the demographic shift where blacks are no longer the biggest minority group. (I read Earl Ofari Hutchinson's The Latino Challenge to Black America last year in the run up to the election. Worth a read. Slim volume.)

The numbers cited in the article describe a 3-5% dip in the black population in two different places. That doesn't mean blacks have disappeared and do not contribute to the "diversity" of california.

A room of 20 people:

5 black 5 chinese 5 puerto rican 5 indian 2 mexican 2 european descent 1 russian

changing that to 4 blacks and 6 chinese does not make the room less ethnically diverse.

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