- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
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Affirmative Action
About this book
Affirmative Action recounts the fascinating history of a civil rights provision considered vital to protecting and promoting equality, but still bitterly contested in the courts—and in the court of public opinion. "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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Debate over Affirmative Action
- 1 Protecting White Men’s Jobs
- 2 The Great Society and the Birth of Affirmative Action
- 3 Affirmative Action Takes Shape
- 4 DeFunis and Bakke: Judicial Challenges to Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the 1970s
- 5 The Limits of Employment Affirmative Action, 1970s–1990s
- 6 Affirmative Action Defended and Attacked: The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
- 7 Two Tales from One City: The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases
- 8 Desegregation, Resegregation, and Affirmative Action
- Conclusion: Where the Affirmative Action Debate Stands Today
- Affirmative Action Time Line
- Selected Materials and Readings on Affirmative Action
- Index