Understanding affirmative action : politics, discrimination, and the search for justice /

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Main Author: Kellough, J. Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy
  • Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity
  • Affirmative action and preferential selection
  • Assessing the argument : a review of the case for and against affirmative action
  • The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints
  • Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action
  • Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action
  • Affirmative action in the twenty-first century