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From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four-year public colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they too have retreated. For law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin, this isn't entirely bad news, because as she argues, affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. The truly disadvantaged-black and brown children trapped in high-poverty environs-are not getting the quality schooling they need in part because backlash and wedge politics undermine any possibility for common-sense public policies. Using place instead of race in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders. In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, arguing that college applicants who have thrived despite exposure to neighborhood or school poverty are deserving of special consideration. Those blessed to have come of age in poverty-free havens are not. Sixty years since the historic decision, we're undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Her proposals include making standardized tests optional, replacing merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid, and recruiting high-achieving students from overlooked places, among other steps that encourage cross-racial alliances and social mobility. A call for action toward the long overdue promise of equality, Place, Not Race persuasively shows how the social costs of racial preferences actually outweigh any of the marginal benefits when effective race-neutral alternatives are available.

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Author:   Sheryll Cashin
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780807086148

ISBN 10:   0807086142
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   06 May 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Fuel Metabolism 1. Diabetes Mellitus Marissa Grotzke Robert E. Jones 2. Acute and Chronic Complications of Diabetes Robert E. Jones, Marissa Grotzke 3. Intensive Insulin Therapy Jennifer Trujillo 4. Inpatient Management of Diabetes and Hyperglycemia Stacey Seggelke, Boris Draznin 5. Diabetes in Pregnancy Linda A. Barbour 6. Lipid Disorders Emily Schroeder and Michael McDermott 7. Obesity Elizabeth A. Thomas, Daniel Bessesen Section 2: Bone and Mineral Disorders 8. Osteoporosis Michael McDermott 9. Glucocorticoid -Induced Osteoporosis Michael McDermott 10. Measurement of Bone Mass William E. Duncan 11. Osteomalacia, Rickets, and Vitamin D Insufficiency William E. Duncan 12. Paget's Disease of Bone William E. Duncan 13. Hypercalcemia Leonard R. Sanders, MD, FACP 14. Hyperparathyroidism Leonard R. Sanders, MD, FACP 15. Hypercalcemia of Malignancy Michael McDermott 16. Hypocalcemia Reed S. Christensen, Kimberly Zibert 17. Nephrolithiasis Leonard R. Sanders, MD, FACP Section 3: Pituitary and Hypothalamic Disorders 18. Pituitary Insufficiency John J. Orrego 19. Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors Michael McDermott 20. Prolactin Secreting Pituitary Tumors Virginia Sarapura 21. Growth Hormone Secreting Pituitary Tumors Mary Samuels 22. Glycoprotein Secreting Pituitary Tumors Robert Smallridge, Shon Meek and Ana Chindris 23. Cushing's Syndrome Mary Samuels 24. Water Metabolism Leonard R. Sanders, MD, FACP 25. Disorders of Growth Phil Zeitler 26. Growth Hormone Use and Abuse Homer Lemar Jr., Vanya D. Wagler, Samir J. Patel Section 4: Adrenal Disorders 27. Primary Aldosteronism Arnold A. Asp 28. Pheochromocytoma Arnold A. Asp 29. Adrenal Malignancies Michael McDermott 30. Adrenal Insufficiency Emily Schroeder and Cecilia C. Low Wang 31. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Jason Daily, Robert Vigersky Section 5: Thyroid Disorders 32. Thyroid Testing Michael McDermott 33. Hyperthyroidism Thanh D. Hoang Henry B. Burch 34. Hypothyroidism Katherine Weber and Bryan R. Haugen 35. Thyroiditis Robert Smallridge, Shon Meek and Ana Chindris 36. Thyroid Nodules and Goiter William Georgitis 37. Thyroid Cancer Joshua Klopper 38. Thyroid Emergencies Michael McDermott 39. Euthyroid Sick Syndrome Michael McDermott 40. Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy Beret Casey 41. Psychiatric Disorders and Thyroid Disease James Hennessey, Alexandra L. Migdal, M.D. Section 6: Reporductive Endocrinology 42. Disorders of Sexual Differentiation Robert Slover, Anil Piya 43. Disorders of Puberty Sharon H. Travers and Scott A. Clements 44. Male Hypogonadism Sky Graybill and Robert Vigersky, 45. Impotence Robert Vigersky, Peter McIntyre 46. Gynecomastia Micol Rothman, Mark Bridentsine and Brenda Bell 47. Amenorrhea Micol Rothman, Margaret Wierman 48. Hirsutism and Virilization Tamis M. Bright 49. Menopause Wesley Nuffer 50. Use and Abuse of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Androgen Precursors Homer Lemar Jr, . Amy A. Yau, Ryan M. Decort, Stephanie B. Ng Section 7: Miscellaneous Topics 51. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Arnold A. Asp 52. Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes Arnold A. Asp 53. Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors Michael McDermott 54. Carcinoid Syndrome Michael McDermott 55. Cutaneous Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus and Thyroid Disease James E. Fitzpatrick and Gary Goldenberg 56. Aging and Endocrinology Heather Brooks, Sandra Indacochea Sobel, Robert S. Schwartz, M.D. and Wendy M. Kohrt, Ph.D. 57. Endocrine Surgery Christopher Raeburn, Jonathan Schoen, M.D and Robert C. McIntyre, Jr. 58. Endocrinology in the Managed Care Environment Elliot G. Levy 59. Sleep and Endocrinology Roger Piepenbrink and William C. Frey 60. Endocrine Case Studies Michael McDermott 61. Famous People with Endocrine Disorders Pratima Kumar, Kenneth J. Simcic and Michael T. McDermott 62. Intresting Endocrine Facts and Figures Michael McDermott

Reviews

Place, Not Race is a courageous and deeply insightful contribution to our racial justice discourse, offering a perspective that is both desperately needed and long overdue. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Professor Sheryl Cashin has written a bold, bracing book that will generate useful controversy over competing strategies for overcoming social inequalities in America. Deeply knowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. Even those who disagree with Cashin will likely derive much value from reading her. --Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word As America becomes more diverse, it paradoxically finds itself increasingly stratified on the basis of place rather than race. Sheryll Cashin's refreshing call for a new multiracial politics of inclusion is a timely and greatly needed addition to the civil rights debate, one that deserves strong support among Americans of all origins. --Douglas S. Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass If you think everything possible about affirmative action has already been said, think again. Sheryll Cashin has given us a breakthrough book. America is segregated by a devastating mixture of economics and race. Why not build a policy that benefits children--of all races--who live on the wrong side of the tracks? Provocative and illuminating, Place, Not Race presents a brave new argument for bettering affirmative action i

Sheryll Cashin offers a thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People A sensible proposal backed by hard data. Kirkus Reviews Cashin sketches the legal and political history of affirmative action, and attends to both resentful whites (Obama s 'election seems to have exacerbated the perception gap about racial inequality') and advantaged blacks ('Economic elites of all colors enjoy built-in advantages in the withering competition for spaces at choice schools'). Publishers Weekly More than 30 years later, a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Marshall, Georgetown University Law Professor Sheryll Cashin, makes a powerful case that it s time to rethink her former boss s support for racial preferences. The place to begin, she argues in her brilliant new book, is an affirmative action that responds directly to the failure of the Brown decision to desegregate schools. . . . Skillfully blending her personal story as an upper-middle-class black professional with a wide range of research on what constitute the biggest barriers to success today, Cashin provides a compelling blueprint for a new, much stronger, form of affirmative action based on actual disadvantage. . . .But overall, Cashin s agenda provides a huge step forward from those liberals who would hold on to Justice Marshall s plan for a century of racial preferences. While seemingly progressive, such policies in practice are deeply conservative, she correctly contends. New Republic Place, Not Race is a courageous and deeply insightful contribution to our racial justice discourse, offering a perspective that is both desperately needed and long overdue. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Professor Sheryl Cashin has written a bold, bracing book that will generate useful controversy over competing strategies for overcoming social inequalities in America. Deeplyknowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. Even those who disagree with Cashin will likely derive much value from reading her. Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word As America becomes more diverse, it paradoxically finds itself increasingly stratified on the basis of place rather than race. Sheryll Cashin s refreshing call for a new multiracial politics of inclusion is a timely and greatly needed addition to the civil rights debate, one that deserves strong support among Americans of allorigins. Douglas S. Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass If you think everything possible about affirmative action has already been said, think again. Sheryll Cashin has given us a breakthrough book. America is segregated by a devastating mixture of economics and race. Why not build a policy that benefits children of all races who live on the wrong side of the tracks? Provocative and illuminating, Place, Not Race presents a brave new argument for bettering affirmative action in the 21st century. Peter B. Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor: Why It s So Hard to End Poverty in America A sensible proposal backed by hard data. -- Kirkus Reviews Cashin sketches the legal and political history of affirmative action, and attends to both resentful whites (Obama's 'election seems to have exacerbated the perception gap about racial inequality') and advantaged blacks ('Economic elites of all colors enjoy built-in advantages in the withering competition for spaces at choice schools'). -- Publishers Weekly More than 30 years later, a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Marshall, Georgetown University Law Professor Sheryll Cashin, makes a powerful case that it's time to rethink her former boss's support for racial preferences. The place to begin, she argues in her brilliant new book, is an affirmative action that responds directly to the failure of the Brown decision to desegregate schools. . . . Skillfully blending her personal story as an upper-middle-class black professional with a wide range of research on what constitute the biggest barriers to success today, Cashin provides a compelling blueprint for a new, much stronger, form of affirmative action based on actual disadvantage. . . .But overall, Cashin's agenda provides a huge step forward from those liberals who would hold on to Justice Marshall's plan for a century of racial preferences. While seemingly progressive, such policies in practice are deeply conservative, she correctly contends. -- New Republic Place, Not Race is a courageous and deeply insightful contribution to our racial justice discourse, offering a perspective that is both desperately needed and long overdue. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Cashin sketches the legal and political history of affirmative action, and attends to both resentful whites (Obama's 'election seems to have exacerbated the perception gap about racial inequality') and advantaged blacks ('Economic elites of all colors enjoy built-in advantages in the withering competition for spaces at choice schools'). -- Publishers Weekly Place, Not Race is a courageous and deeply insightful contribution to our racial justice discourse, offering a perspective that is both desperately needed and long overdue. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Professor Sheryl Cashin has written a bold, bracing book that will generate useful controversy over competing strategies for overcoming social inequalities in America. Deeply knowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. Even those who disagree with Cashin will likely derive much value from reading her. --Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word As America becomes more diverse, it paradoxically finds itself increasingly stratified on the basis of place rather than race. Sheryll Cashin's refreshing call for a new multiracial politics of inclusion is a timely and greatly needed addition to the civil rights debate, one that deserves strong support among Americans of all origins. --Douglas S. Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass If you think everything possible about affirmative actiont Place, Not Race is a courageous and deeply insightful contribution to our racial justice discourse, offering a perspective that is both desperately needed and long overdue. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Professor Sheryl Cashin has written a bold, bracing book that will generate useful controversy over competing strategies for overcoming social inequalities in America. Deeply knowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. Even those who disagree with Cashin will likely derive much value from reading her. --Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word As America becomes more diverse, it paradoxically finds itself increasingly stratified on the basis of place rather than race. Sheryll Cashin's refreshing call for a new multiracial politics of inclusion is a timely and greatly needed addition to the civil rights debate, one that deserves strong support among Americans of all origins. --Douglas S. Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass If you think everything possible about affirmative action has already been said, think again. Sheryll Cashin has given us a breakthrough book. America is segregated by a devastating mixture of economics and race. Why not build a policy that benefits children--of all races--who live on the wrong side of the tracks? Provocative and illuminating, Place, Not Race presents a brave new argument for bettering affirmative action i A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Professor Sheryl Cashin has written a bold, bracing book that will generate useful controversy over competing strategies for overcoming social inequalities in America. Deeply knowledgeable about her volatile subject, she illuminates it with keen insight and vivid writing that is attractively accessible. Even those who disagree with Cashin will likely derive much value from reading her. --Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word As America becomes more diverse, it paradoxically finds itself increasingly stratified on the basis of place rather than race. Sheryll Cashin's refreshing call for a new multiracial politics of inclusion is a timely and greatly needed addition to the civil rights debate, one that deserves strong support among Americans of all origins. --Douglas S. Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass If you think everything possible about affirmative action has already been said, think again. Sheryll Cashin has given us a breakthrough book. America is segregated by a devastating mixture of economics and race. Why not build a policy that benefits children--of all races--who live on the wrong side of the tracks? Provocative and illuminating, Place, Not Race presents a brave new argument for bettering affirmative action in the 21st century. --Peter B. Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America

A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate. --Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is the author of The Agitator's Daughter and The Failures of Integration. Cashin has published widely in academic journals and print media and is a frequent commentator on law and race relations, having appeared on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and numerous other outlets. Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists, Cashin was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy. She lives with her husband and two sons in Washington, DC.

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