A history of affirmative action, 1619-2000 /
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today?. The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must gra...
| Основен автор: | Rubio, Philip F. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
℗♭2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=109062 |
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Print version::
History of affirmative action, 1619-2000. |
| Резюме: |
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today?. The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must grapple with all of America's racial history, from colonial times, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights era, to the present day. Philip Rubio argues that misunderstanding the history of affirmative action is the principal reason that most white people have difficulty in s. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-316) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1417509309 9781417509300 9781604730319 1604730315 |