Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

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"Special consideration" or "reverse discrimination"? This examination traces the genesis and development of affirmative action and the continuing controversy that constitutes the story of racial and gender preferences. It pays attention to the individuals, the events, and the ideas that spawned federal and selected state affirmative action policies—and the resistance to those policies. Perhaps most important, it probes the key legal challenges to affirmative action in the nation's courts.

The controversy over affirmative action in America has been marked by a persistent tension between its advocates, who emphasize the necessity of overcoming historical patterns of racial and gender injustice, and its critics, who insist on the integrity of color and gender blindness. In the wake of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2007, Affirmative Action brings the story of one of the most embattled public policy issues of the last half century up to date, demonstrating that social justice cannot simply be legislated into existence, nor can voices on either side of the debate be ignored. -- Provided by publisher

Keywords

Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History; Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History; Discrimination in higher education -- United States -- History;

Document Type

Book

ISBN

9780313338144

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO

City

Santa Barbara, CA

Department

Department of History

Object Description

xiv, 199 p. ; 25 cm

Language

en

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