By: Lani Guinier, The Nation
Thursday, January 30, 2003


Professor Emeritus Patricia Gurin's research was quoted in a January 23, 2003 "comment" section article on The Nation's website:

...Because race has a political, economic and social component, professor of psychology Patricia Gurin finds that when people who have lived on the darker side of our racial divide have access to our classrooms and our faculties, white and nonwhite students alike achieve better intellectual growth and improved capacity to participate in our multiracial democracy. The rhetoric of quotas shuts down the conversation about racially diverse classrooms and their relationship to the learning environment. It also diverts our attention from the real double-bind that distorts the face of higher education in America....

For the full article, see: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030210&s=guinier.