"Admission to One. . . Admission to All": The (End of the) Radical Dream of Open Admissions in the Post-Desegregation South

Autor/in	Mendenhall, Annie S.
Titel	"Admission to One. . . Admission to All": The (End of the) Radical Dream of Open Admissions in the Post-Desegregation South
Quelle	In: Journal of Basic Writing, 42 (2023) 1, S.11-34 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0147-1635
Schlagwörter	Open Enrollment; Postsecondary Education; School Desegregation; Educational History; Court Litigation; Selective Admission; Civil Rights; Minority Group Students; Basic Writing; Access to Education; Desegregation Litigation; Federal Legislation; Civil Rights Legislation; Writing Instruction; Black Colleges; Tennessee; Louisiana; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Open entry; Offenes Bildungssystem; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Integrative Schule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Rechtsstreit; Bildungsselektion; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bundesrecht; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	This essay describes Open Admissions in the South during postsecondary desegregation, providing a comparative analysis of policies and debates in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia. Statewide Open Admissions policies emerged in the 1960s as part of superficial efforts to comply with desegregation but were ineffective; consequently, they were overturned in court in favor of increased remediation and selective admissions in four-year colleges and universities. Desegregation litigation consistently presented literacy remediation as key to desegregation, undermining civil rights activists' arguments for transformative Open Admissions programs that proposed nonselective admissions coupled with the transformation of historically white universities' programs and policies. Desegregation enforcement may have delegitimized radical Open Admissions by presenting remediation, particularly Basic Writing, as key to accessing higher education for students of color--a persistent rhetoric in Basic Writing scholarship that must be reexamined in light of this history. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01