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The Making of Reverse Discrimination : How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection /

"As universities were instituting affirmative action in the early 1970s, two white men challenged race-conscious admissions at professional schools. The now-famous cases of DeFunis v. Odegaard (1971-1974) and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1974-1978)-which opened the door to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Messer-Davidow, Ellen, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frenemies
  • Just words?
  • The stories they tell
  • Coloring the case
  • Plying fact and law
  • The meanings of DeFunis
  • Slanting the story
  • Textualizing Bakke
  • The Disappearance of Racism
  • Places
  • Conclusion : installing the new racism.