[Writing about Kidada Williams’ new book a couple weeks back reminded me that it’s been too long since I’ve focused a series on new scholarship. So this week I’ll highlight a handful of great recent books—add your nominations for a crowd-sourced Friday post (ahead of the monthly recap on the weekend), please!]
A couple
years back (man, nothing like blog posts to remind you how fast time flies) I wrote
a post highlighting my fellow SSN
Boston Chapter co-leaders, including Natasha
Warikoo. I highlighted there one of Natasha’s 2022 books, Race
at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in
Suburban Schools; she also published a second book (!) in 2022, Is
Affirmative Action Fair?: The Myth of Equity in College Admissions.
Both of those built on her 2016 book The
Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at
Elite Universities. To be clear, here in 2023 the most pressing issues
facing higher ed and education overall are the sustained assaults on those
institutions and systems from overt adversaries and their bullshit narratives,
and defending American education from them has to be job one for all of us. But
that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other, much more complicated questions
facing higher ed, including those around admissions and diversity and equity
that Natasha has spent her career writing about with as much thoughtful nuance
as any scholar. All those books of hers are well worth checking out as we seek
to advance that conversation!
Last
scholarly highlight tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Other scholarly books or work you’d highlight?
PPS. For a
lot more—I mean a lot more—great recent books, check out that section of all my
#ScholarSunday
threads!
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