Protesting Affirmative Action : The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Deslippe, Dennis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Equality > United States > History.
Affirmative action programs > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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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