Protesting affirmative action the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution /
A lightening rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and...
| Основен автор: | Deslippe, Dennis. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Reconfiguring American political history.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Protesting affirmative action. |
Съдържание:
- "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74
- "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72
- "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education
- Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s
- "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and
- Color-blindness in the courtroom
- "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s
- "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke
- Conclusion.