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Title Affirmative action : social justice or reverse discrimination? / edited by Francis J. Beckwith and Todd E. Jones.

Publication Info. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E185.615 .A592 1997    Available  ---
Description 250 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Contemporary issues
Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247).
Contents Taking affirmative action apart / Nicholas Lemann -- To fulfill these rights: commencement address at Howard University (June 4, 1965) / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- The sweet music of equal treatment / Ward Connerly -- The DeFunis case: the right to go to law school / Ronald Dworkin -- Casualties and more casualties: surviving affirmative action (more or less) / Frederick R. Lynch -- From equal opportunity to "affirmative action" / Thomas Sowell -- Nihilism in Black America / Cornel West -- Affirmative action: the price of preference / Shelby Steele -- Reverse racism, or how the pot got to call the kettle black / Stanley Fish -- Race-neutral programs and the Democratic Coalition / William Julius Wilson -- The moral status of affirmative action / Louis P. Pojman -- A defense of programs of preferential treatment / Richard Wasserstrom -- Is racial discrimination special? / Michael E. Levin -- Goals and quotas in hiring and promotion / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Justifying reverse discrimination in employment / George Sher.
Subject Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Race discrimination.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation.
Added Author Beckwith, Francis.
Jones, Todd E.
ISBN 1573921572 paper acid-free paper