Affirmative Action for the Future /

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Discusses 2006 and 2008 referendums that banned affirmative action in some states while upholding it in others, and offers a defense of affirmative action in public and private institutions, discussing the practice as a tool for social reform.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sterba, James P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation.
Affirmative action programs in education.
Affirmative action programs.
LAW > Educational Law & Legislation.
Labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
Programmes d'action positive en education > États-Unis.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis.
Affirmative action programs in education > United States.
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Current racial and sexual discrimination
  • A legal history of race-and sex-based affirmative action
  • How best to define affirmative action
  • A defense of outreach affirmative action
  • A defense of remedial affirmative action
  • Objections to remedial affirmative action
  • A defense of diversity affirmative action
  • Objections to diversity affirmative action
  • Affirmative action around the world.

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