CoDE Seminar- The Diversity Bargain: And other dilemmas of race, admissions, and meritocracy at elite universities
| Dates: | 3 October 2017 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Natasha K. Warikoo |
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Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series.
We are pleased to announce Natasha Warikoo from Harvard University will be joining us for our first CoDE seminar of the academic year. Refreshments provided.
Natasha is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities. The seminar will focus on research outlined in her recent book The Diversity Bargain: And other dilemmas of race, admissions, and meritocracy at elite universities.
The Diversity Bargain draws on interviews with students at top American and British universities—Harvard, Brown, and Oxford—to reveal just how winners of supposedly meritocratic systems make sense of those systems. Along the way Warikoo illuminates how students think about race, showing that students’ conceptions of race are deeply tied to their beliefs about fairness in admissions, especially in the United States. White American students express a diversity bargain, supporting affirmative action in as much as it benefits themselves, while white British students reject considerations of both race and class in admissions, maintaining faith in standardized exams and university interviews to select the most deserving students. Ultimately, students’ perspectives in both the United States and Britain will maintain racial inequality if they continue to hold little understanding of and vision for reducing racial inequality in society—and in particular in the outcomes of the admissions process—as they currently seem to do.
- This is a free event. No registration required.
Speaker
Natasha K. Warikoo
Organisation: Harvard University
Biography: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/natasha-warikoo
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Humanities Bridgeford Street
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