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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Johnson, Matthew (Matthew James), 1983–author.

Title: Undermining racial justice : how one university embraced inclusion and inequality / Matthew Johnson.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: Histories of American education | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019024696 (print) | LCCN 2019024697 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501748585 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501748592 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501748608 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: University of Michigan—Admission. | Discrimination in higher education—Michigan—Ann Arbor. | Affirmative action programs in education—Michigan—Ann Arbor. | Racism in higher education—Michigan—Ann Arbor. | Universities and colleges—Michigan—Ann Arbor—Admission. | African American college students—Civil rights—Michigan—Ann Arbor.

Classification: LCC LC212.422.M5 J64 2020 (print) | LCC LC212.422.M5 (ebook) | DDC 378.774/35—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024696

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024697

Portions of Chapter 2 are adapted, with permission, from “Managing Racial Inclusion: The Origins and Early Implementation of Affirmative Action Admissions at the University of Michigan,” Journal of Policy History 29, no. 3 (July 2017): 462–489.