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Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

Johnson, John

Hardcover

Series: Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America

LaborGeneral ReferenceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0313338140
ISBN13: 9780313338144
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: May 19 2009
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Affirmative Action recounts the fascinating history of a civil rights provision considered vital to protecting and promoting equality, but still bitterly contested in the courts--and in the court of public opinion.

Special consideration or reverse discrimination? This examination traces the genesis and development of affirmative action and the continuing controversy that constitutes the story of racial and gender preferences. It pays attention to the individuals, the events, and the ideas that spawned federal and selected state affirmative action policies--and the resistance to those policies. Perhaps most important, it probes the key legal challenges to affirmative action in the nation's courts.

The controversy over affirmative action in America has been marked by a persistent tension between its advocates, who emphasize the necessity of overcoming historical patterns of racial and gender injustice, and its critics, who insist on the integrity of color and gender blindness. In the wake of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2007, Affirmative Action brings the story of one of the most embattled public policy issues of the last half century up to date, demonstrating that social justice cannot simply be legislated into existence, nor can voices on either side of the debate be ignored.

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