A Conflict of Principles : The Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan /

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"Carl Cohen, a left-wing philosophy professor at the University of Michigan who had long fought for civil rights and individual liberty, strongly believed that racial justice can only be attained in a society that is color-blind and that does not operate on the basis of quotas related to race,...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Carl, 1931- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan > Trials, litigation, etc.
Universities and colleges > Admission > Law and legislation.
Trials.
Discrimination in higher education > Law and legislation.
Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation.
LAW > Discrimination.
LAW > Civil Rights.
Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation > Michigan.
Universities and colleges > Admission > Law and legislation > Michigan.
Discrimination in higher education > Law and legislation > Michigan.
Michigan.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How it all began
  • Bakke and the rise of diversity
  • From The nation to Commentary
  • From Washington to Berlin and beyond
  • Naked racial preference
  • The University of Michigan comes into focus
  • Confrontation
  • Pulling teeth
  • Revelation
  • Further revelations
  • What was I to do?
  • Point of no return
  • On to the federal courts
  • The climate of opinion at Michigan
  • The reading room
  • Moving targets
  • Intervenors
  • The thin line between permissible and impermissible
  • 128 honorary degrees and a coat check
  • The heart of the trial : 257-1
  • Vindication
  • Petitions don't decide lawsuits
  • Why it smelled funny
  • Back on the home front
  • Some personal questions
  • Preparing for the big event
  • The big event
  • The end of litigation
  • From legal battles to political battles : the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is born
  • Defending the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
  • The Constitution of Michigan amended
  • Race preference at the University of Texas
  • Race preference in Michigan is permanently ended
  • Appendix A : Freedom of Information Act requests
  • Appendix B : The Cohen Report, 20 March 1996
  • Appendix C : The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI).

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