| Description |
xii, 532 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-491) and index. |
| Contents |
Racial quotas / Nathan Glazer -- Fair shakers and social engineers / Morris B. Abram -- Persuasion and distrust / Randall Kennedy -- Ethnic tribalism and human personhood / Russell Nieli -- Why I believe in affirmative action / Paul R. Spickard -- Affirmative action : a liberal program? / Lee Nisbet -- Affirmative action under attack / Robert F. Drinan -- Underhandedness of affirmative action / Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. -- Why we need race consciousness / Charles |
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Krauthammer -- Preferential admissions and the equal protection clause / William O. Douglas -- For Bakke / Stanley Mosk -- Against Bakke / Richard B. Sobol -- Are quotas unfair? / Ronald Dworkin -- Remedying past discrimination / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Race as a "plus" factor / Lewis F. Powell, Jr. |
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Disease as a cure / Antonin Scalia -- Minority set-asides / Warren E. Burger -- Minority set-asides are unconstitutional / Potter Stewart -- Set-asides violate the equal protection clause / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Giant step backward on set-asides / Thurgood Marshall -- Race-based preference violates the fourteenth amendment / Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -- Minority teachers serve an important purpose / John Paul Stevens III -- Supreme Court and civil rights / Robert H. Bork -- |
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Racial preference in the factory / Carl Cohen -- Civil rights act permits voluntary affirmative action / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Title VII not intended to lock-in minorities / Harry A. Blackmun -- Justice debased / Carl Cohen -- Consent decrees cannot bind nonconsenting parties / William H. Rehnquist -- Leave consent decrees alone / John Paul Stevens III. |
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Rumors of inferiority / Jeff Howard, Ray Hammond -- Jews and Negroes / Ernest van den Haag -- Affirmative racism / Charles Murray -- Admitting success / Derek Bok -- Are quotas good for Blacks? / Thomas Sowell -- Affirmative action that hurts Blacks / William Raspberry -- Beyond civil rights / Glenn C. Loury -- Asian difference / John H. Bunzel, Jeffrey K.D. Au. |
| Subject |
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Affirmative action programs -- United States.
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Discrimination in employment -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Nieli, Russell, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0896331474: $25.95 |
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