Understanding affirmative action : politics, discrimination, and the search for justice /

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For some time, the United States has been engaged in a national debate over affirmative action policy. A policy that began with the idea of creating a level playing field for minorities has sparked controversy in the workplace, in higher education, and elsewhere. After forty years, the debate still...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kellough, J. Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States.
Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation > United States.
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Programmes d'action positive > Droit > États-Unis.
Programmes d'action positive en éducation > Droit > États-Unis.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Affirmative action programs.
Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation.
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation.
Positieve actie.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy
  • Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity
  • Affirmative action and preferential selection
  • Assessing the argument : a review of the case for affirmative action
  • The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints
  • Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action
  • Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action
  • Affirmative action in the Twenty-first century.

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