![]() Harris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an. a must-read, detailing the complex dynamics that both reflect our nation’s dark history and show us the way toward a more equitable future. In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits. He joins a new wave of scholars like Eddie Cole, Cristina Groeger, Matthew Johnson and Crystal Sanders looking critically at how race, education and history intertwine to shape our present-day reality. Harris evokes a sense of urgency by laying out the stakes of letting longstanding inequalities among our colleges and universities continue as they are. His sobering account of Gaines, a sharecroppers’ son who became the lead complainant in the 1938 Supreme Court case, conveys the toll of uplifting the race. Harris’s writing is as refreshing as it is haunting. It is a meditation on racism and inequality in America. Harris, a staff writer for The Atlantic, exposes the menace in the mundane. is about more than inequities in higher education. Highlighting the lives of those whose names line pages of case law, The State Must Provide, by Adam Harris, shows how the legacy of racism and exclusion shapes higher education today. ![]() ![]() Through vivid storytelling, he documents how white presidents of all-white, state flagship universities worked tirelessly alongside state lawmakers throughout much of the 20th century to keep segregation alive to the detriment of Black colleges. Harris exposes the menace in the mundane. ![]()
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