Description |
250 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Contemporary issues
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Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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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.
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Race discrimination. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation. |
Added Author |
Beckwith, Francis.
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Jones, Todd E.
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ISBN |
1573921572 paper acid-free paper |
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