Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education

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ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributors1Promise and Dilemma: Incorporating Racial Diversity in Selective Higher Education32Promoting High Academic Achievement among Non-Asian Minorities473A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance924A Practitioner's View from Texas: Comments on the Essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele1295Assessment and Student Diversity: Comments on the Essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele1356Equity and Excellence - Strange Bedfellows? A Case Study of South African Higher Education1457Facing the Dilemmas of Difference: Comments on the Essay by Mamphela Ramphele1628Problematics of Affirmative Action: A View from California1699What a University Can Learn and Teach about Conflict and Difference: Comments on the Essay by Neil J. Smelser193Epilogue199Index203