For discrimination: race, affirmative action, and the law

✍ Scribed by Kennedy, Randall

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
Year: 2013;2015
Tongue: English
Edition: First Vintage books edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Introduction : growing up with affirmative action -- 1. Affirmative action in the history of American race relations -- 2. The affirmative action policy debate : the key arguments pro and con -- 3. The color-blind challenge to affirmative action -- 4. The Supreme Court and affirmative action : the case of higher education -- 5. Reflections on the future of the affirmative action controversy.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction : growing up with affirmative action --
1. Affirmative action in the history of American race relations --
2. The affirmative action policy debate : the key arguments pro and con --
3. The color-blind challenge to affirmative action --
4. The Supreme Court and affirmative action : the case of higher education --
5. Reflections on the future of the affirmative action controversy.

✦ Subjects

Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation;Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States;Discrimination raciale--États-Unis;Programmes d'action positive--Droit--États-Unis;Race discrimination;Race discrimination--United States;Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States;Race discrimination -- United States;Programmes d'action positive -- Droit -- États-Unis;Discrimination raciale -- États-Unis;Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation;Unit

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