Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deslippe, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Colección:Reconfiguring American political history.
Temas:
Affirmative action programs > United States > History.
Equality > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Affirmative action programs.
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation.
Equality.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States.
"Multi-User"
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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