Dr. Lawrence Brown
Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Public Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Brown's publication
"Contracting and the Bureaucratic Representation of Minorities and Women: Examining Evidence From Federal Agencies," with J. Edward Kellough, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 40(3): 2019, 447-467.
Previous episode of The Politics Classroom referenced
UIC Historian Professor Lynn Hudson
2021.10: Multiracial discrimination in California
West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line, 2020
Books on racial inequality in higher education
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--and How to Set Them Right by Adam Harris, 2021
Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities by Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen, 2021
Previous court cases challenging affirmative action in college admissions
University of California Regents v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 98 S. Ct. 2733 (1978)
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 123 S. Ct. 2325 (2003)
Fisher (I) v. University of Texas at Austin, 570 U.S. 297, 133 S. Ct. 2411, 186 L. Ed. 2d 474, 24 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 399 (2013)
Fisher (II) v. University of Texas at Austin, 136 S. Ct. 2198, 195 L. Ed. 2d 511 (2016)
2022-2023 Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action
Students for Fair Admissions v. President of Harvard College, 980 F.3d 157 (1st Cir. 2020)
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, 1:14CV954 (M.D.N.C. Sep. 30, 2019)
Pending legislation on banning legacy university admissions