The myth of educational attainment: when a Black woman's master's degree equals a White woman's bachelor's degree - Picataway, MJ, school board, teachers, lawsuit - Column

Black Issues in Higher Education, Dec 11, 1997 by Julianne Malveaux

There's the rub. Spit happens. Downsizing takes place. What the Taxman case has said so far is that when downsizing doesn't fall on the shoulders of Black people, White people are ready to go to court. Or when all else is supposedly equal, White folks are supposed to prevail.

This is a premise that deserves challenge. But then there are others, such as the premise that a White woman's bachelor's degree is the equivalent of a Black woman's master's. That is only the case in a racist society.