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

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 23 14:33:00 PST 2009


At 02:05 PM 11/23/2009, c b wrote:


> >So, maybe it's mainly racism against Hispanics in privatizing
> >higher education in Caly ?
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>Mainly? Like Doug said yesterday, California is flat broke. Broker
>than broke. Here's another indicator hot off the press.
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>^^^^^^^
>CB: I mean the racist part is mainly anti-immigrant, not that Caly
>isn't broke. Michigan is broke , too.

I really don't know and I don't think the article that started this gives the answers it purports to.

One problem I had with it is there is no breakdown of what "growing ethnic diversity" in California means. At UCLA and Berkeley there are more students in the Asian/Asian-American/Pacific Islander category than in the White/Caucasian. This has been true for some time now. When the article lumped a lot of backlash movements together to say they were all a response to "growing diversity" there was no mention of wrinkles like "model minority" (also a racist term of course) and how that plays into the equation. That's just one example of why I thought that article didn't prove it's point. It left a lot to just be assumed as given.


> So, would you and Doug say we _are_ in a post-"racial" society ?

I can't speak for Doug but for me, of course not.



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