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Redefining equality /

This work brings together essays which present views about the meaning of equality and providing perspectives on the on-going debates about it. The collection presents a range of opinions and insights that speak to America's ability to define and deal with the politics of equality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Devins, Neal, Douglas, Davison M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the pursuit of equality / Davison M. Douglas and Neal Devins
  • Equality and impasse : mobilizing group-based perspectives in an era of group-blindness / Kathryn Abrams
  • Civil rights reform in historical perspective : regulating marital violence / Reva B. Siegel
  • The illusory distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of result / David A. Strauss
  • The word "American" ends in "I can" : the ambiguous promise of the American dream / Jennifer L. Hochschild
  • Racial divisions and judicial obstructions / Jeremy Radkin
  • The politics of clientele capture : civil rights policy and the Reagan administration / Hugh Davis Graham
  • The convergence of Black and white attitudes on school desegregation issues / Christine H. Rossell
  • Brown blues : rethinking the integrative ideal / Drew S. Days III
  • The social construction of Brown vs. Board of Education : law reform and the reconstructive paradox / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
  • The irrelevant court : the Supreme Court's inability to influence popular beliefs about equality (or anything else) / Gerald N. Rosenberg
  • Can courts make a difference? / Erwin Chemerinsky
  • The Supreme Court's pursuit of equality and liberty and the burdens of history / David J. Garrow
  • The judicial role in equality decisionmaking / Neal Devins.