The Riches of This Land Quotes

“degrees and teaching positions to the best candidates. If there were a group of better candidates who were being discriminated against, for race or other reasons, then some competitor university would snap them up and reap the benefits. That is how rational actors supposedly behave in a free market: inefficient behavior like racial discrimination is punished by competitors and thus driven out of the marketplace. Therefore, the argument goes, low representation of black, Hispanic, Native American, and other nonwhite students in the profession must be evidence not of discrimination but of differing preferences or abilities among racial groups. (There’s”
― Jim Tankersley, The Riches of This Land