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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Beacon Press (May 5, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0807080403
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807080405
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.5 x 8.7 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsThought Provoking But Incomplete
By Kevin L. Nenstiel TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on June 30, 2014
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American race relations rests at a crossroads. While white Americans believe we've expunged our Jim Crow legacy, African Americans still recognize opportunities lost to wildly unequal resource allocation. At the heart of this disjunction lies Affirmative Action, Lyndon Johnson's attempt to proactively redress historical injustice. In today's putatively post-racial society, with an African American President, do such programs still serve, or hinder, their targeted clients?

Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin manages to straddle both sides of this important debate. Dispassionately scrutinizing the numbers, clearly black Americans bear multi-generational disadvantages that they cannot simply muscle through. Cashin's analysis resembles a much briefer synopsis of Ian Haney López. But race-based scrutiny overlooks that poor whites face categorically different circumstances than the rich; Cashin writes, "Working-class whites are rarely disaggregated in these debates."

Cashin sees the linking factor not as race, but poverty. As an educator herself, Cashin focuses on access to postsecondary schooling, which has distinct economic implications. Poor people, even what Cashin calls "low-income strivers," have systemic barriers to education access (her lengthy demonstration defies abridgement). Lack of educational access has consequences which unspool throughout a citizen's life. Therefore, Cashin says, poverty trumps race as a situation needing redress.

I'll buy that. But Cashin's solution is to focus efforts on geographically localized poverty.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFascinating, personal, and important book
By A Super Cool Amazon Reviewer Bro VINE VOICE on August 15, 2014
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Place, Not Race buries the lede. I mean that as a compliment. Although Cashin articulates a strategy to eliminate race as a factor in admissions while helping the disadvantaged by focusing more on factors like exposure to extreme poverty, high school graduation rates, and the like--factors that I saw questions on when I applied to law school in the California university system--this is really a story about how to achieve justice for all while minimizing racial resentments.

It is also a deeply personal book by a woman who has benefited from affirmative action, but who also came from a legacy of high achieving and politically active ancestors--a great grandfather a lawyer in Jim Crow South who was defiant of racial segregation, grandmother a school principal, father and uncle valedictorians of high school, and father graduated first in his class and ran against George Wallace for Governor of Alabama! (I wanted to learn more about these folks and was a little disappointed that there was not more detail about them. I subsequently learned that Cashin wrote a previous book that explores her family history. The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family Based on the snippets in Place, Not Race, I look forward to reading it.)

Cashin is deeply conscious of her place and role as an affluent black woman in a society where that is still a rarity. She is admirably transparent about the angst of school choice for her sons.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsMy do we come from different points of view. But we do agree on this.
By Man in the Middle VINE VOICE on May 11, 2014
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As I read the first part of this book, I was reminded of discussions a decade ago with a colleague from Lebanon about current events in the Middle East. It turned out we had no truth sources in common, so even though we were good friends, it was very difficult for us to agree on the true facts regarding any particular event, because there were simply no points of contact between the news sources we trusted.

The difficulty here is similar. Much as I agree with the author's proposal to replace affirmative action in college admissions based on skin tone with need-based help instead, reading her fervently-big government Democrat and anti-Republican reasons for this as a political independent who favors the small government classic liberal ideas of our nation's founders was like chewing glass. I was clearly not her intended audience. Rather, she seemed focused on convincing fellow Democrats deeply committed to the idea of racial quotas in college admissions as to why that's a losing strategy.

Fortunately, matters improved beginning with Chapter 3, as the author focused more on actual research and proposals for change. Those I found interesting and well worth my time.

I was intrigued by the idea of basing preferences on place (unsure whether she means ZIP code, census tract, or some other metric here), rather than just financial need. To me it seems simpler to just use wealth and income, as that information is already included in college applications. But the author feels strongly that this would not be enough to bring about the needed changes.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsCashin allows the results to speak to other results and as she puts...

To say that this book is a must read for anyone concerned with the future of higher education and the role of diversity and equity in achieving any associated goals is an... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Earl
4.0 out of 5 starsFood for Thought about the Fairness of Affirmative Action

This is an important work that needs to be read and discussed. It makes a good point that it is almost racist to assume that all African-Americans need affirmative action and that... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Diane H
4.0 out of 5 starsAffirmative Action as a win-win

I think this book shows us the future of affirmative action.
Using place instead of race as a criterion for college admissions would weaken the lawsuits of Whites who have... Read more

Published 16 months ago by John G. Chase
5.0 out of 5 starsInformation is well-defined

Given the current political climate in America, this book is very timely and provided an overview of the purpose of program's that help ensure equal opportunities are provided to... Read more

Published 18 months ago by Ashley Mott
4.0 out of 5 starsWell Written, But No Easy Answers

I found this to be really interesting read. Has Affirmative Action worked? I think the author has made the point that economics plays a greater role in opportunity, both... Read more

Published 20 months ago by LAURI CRUMLEY COATES
5.0 out of 5 starsExamination Of Race Relations And The Need For Affirmative Action In...

"Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America" by Sheryll Cashin is very though provoking book. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Wilhelmina Zeitgeist
5.0 out of 5 starsVery interesting beginning

I found this to be an interesting argument. I took a class that was based upon classism within the US. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Jennifer Miller
4.0 out of 5 starsAffirmative Action in America, Success or Failure?

Not the easiest book to read, but Sheryll's extensive research, insights, arguments and cases of Affirmative Action in America reflects the perception gaps that both blacks (native... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsGet it and learn!!!

This is a book that contains an interesting point of view on an important topic. The main problem with this book that I have is it's highly normative perspective. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Dr. Redhawk
2.0 out of 5 starsCashin's vision is great in theory, but fails in real life

Sheryll Cashin's "Place Not Race" is good in theory. Cashin tries to make the argument that opportunity/affirmative action in American should be based on economic... Read more

Published 20 months ago by silhouette_of_enchantment

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