Defining Black Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century

Discusses current higher education of black students, noting that racial discrimination is still present, with opportunity and access to higher education determined primarily by wealth. Notes reverses in previous advances in racial change within education, examining the polarized environment of class and race, and describing how liberal education must deconstruct the intricate patterns of social privilege that are obscured from critical scrutiny by the ideology of meritocracy. (SM)