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The Half-Opened Door - Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970 (Hardcover)
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The Half-Opened Door - Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970 (Hardcover)
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By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken
root in elite American colleges'specifically, Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton. White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant hegemony was endangered
by new kinds of student, many of them Catholic and Jewish
immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born
Americans by raising academic standards and winning a
disproportionate share of the scholarships. The Half-Opened Door
analyzes the role of these institutions, casting light on their
place in class structure and values in the United States. It
details the origins, history, and demise of discriminatory
admissions processes and depicts how the entrenched position of the
upper class was successfully challenged. The educational, and hence
economic, mobility of Catholics and Jews has shown other groups for
example, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Spanish-speaking
Americans not only the difficulties that these earlier aspirants
had in overcoming class and ethnic barriers, but the fact that it
can be done. One of the ironies of the history of higher education
in the United States is the use of quotas by admissions committees.
Restrictive measures were imposed on Jews because they were so
successful, whereas benign quotas are currently used to encourage
underrepresented minorities to enter colleges and professional
schools. The competing claims of both the older and the newer
minorities continue to be the subject of controversy, editorial
comments, and court cases and will be for years to come.
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