Reviews for Basic College Mathematics

The average rating for Basic College Mathematics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-15 00:00:00 James Maupin A compromised view of the origins of Africana Studies in American academe. Rooks greatly overstates the importance of the Ford Foundation's role in the process of getting Black Studies programs off the ground. It's not coincidental that this book was funded in large part by the Ford Foundation, and that Rooks works at Princeton, the kind of institution that has been resistant to radical change in academic programs since the revolutionary 60s generation sought. While the book does retain some historical interest, there are far superior sources for information about this topic, sources that don't have partially hidden connections to think tanks seeking revisionist history.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-27 00:00:00 Susan Mysliwy 2006. [not for me to read, but the argument is important] Karina Valdez: "From reading the more critical reviews of this book, I understand that uncovering the complex history of Black Studies possibly disturbs a powerful narrative behind the foundations of this field of Academia. However, I believe Rooks did an amazing job not taking away from that history, and opened up the conversation for how the legacy of the **Ford Foundation** continues to shape the way African American Studies programs are run, conceptualized, and perceived throughout the country today." Lauren: "Rooks is primarily concerned with the origins of Black Studies as a discipline and how the *Ford Foundation* influenced its academic focus in the late 60s and early 70s. I found her historical narrative to be a bit dry and repetitive - I almost put the book down out of a mix of boredom and frustration. I stuck with it, though, and it really picked up for me in Chapters 5 and 6 when she moved into the recent past and present to analyze the future of the discipline. Her writing on affirmative action, the current breakdown of "black" students on college campuses and how Hispanic students complicate the conversation on race in America were of particular interest to me"