Abstract
Today’s outlook on higher education for people of color is in question. Because of the downfall of affirmative action, higher educational facilities must look to factors other than race to increase or maintain diversity. W.E.B. Du Bois viewed education as a means to uplift Black people. In a time of uncertain missions of higher education, and a steadfast commitment to a con- tinuous uplift of the Black community, it is paramount to view all angles of solutions to the end of affirmative action. In analy=zing the shifting educa- tional philosophy of Du Bois against the modern struggle of maintaining di- versity in institutions of higher education, the completists may be left out. It important to understand that this is not an article of grandiose proposi- tions—of hope and prospect for the higher education sector—but a mere analysis of historical ideals rearing their head in the twenty-first-century le- gal diaspora. The historical ideals of Du Bois can teach us that the educa- tional structures, while not legally separate but equal, are still subject to un- derfunding, willful cultural incompetence, and structural disrepair. Suppose we are to view education as a means of uplifting people of color out of the structural racism of the twenty-first century. In that case, it is fundamental to analyze the founder of this ideal: Du Bois.
Recommended Citation
Austin Burke,
DU BOIS AND THE PROMOTION OF ADMISSIONS DIVERSITY: A POST-GRUTTER ANALYSIS,
28
Rich. Pub. Int. L. Rev.
219
(2025).
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