In Philip Roth’s 2000 novel, The Human Stain, protagonist Coleman Silk is a light-skinned black person who poses as a white professor in order to gain a teaching position at a small-town college. After commenting about the ongoing absence of two girls and utilizing a term that was falsely interpreted […]
Howard Lurie: Are colleges lying about affirmative action?
Schools claim they analyze every application “holistically” — can this really be true?
By Howard Lurie