Title The affirmative action puzzle : a living history from reconstruction to today / Melvin I. Urofsky.

Publication Info.	New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xviii, 572 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [473]-544) and index.
Contents	Affirmative action before Kennedy -- Kennedy and Johnson -- Affirmative action spreads-and mutates -- Nixon and the Philadelphia plan -- Prejudice persists, affirmative action grows -- Marco Defunis, Allan Bakke, and Brian Weber -- Changing academia -- Backlash and defense -- Blacks and Jews divide -- Women and affirmative action -- The Reagan presidency -- The Court changes its mind -- Mend it, don't end it-or not -- Prop 209 -- Affirmative action and elections -- Seeking diversity in higher education -- Women and affirmative action II -- Other groups, here and abroad -- Bush, Obama, and Fisher -- Yes...and no...and Trump.
Subject	Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History.
	Affirmative action programs in education -- United States -- History.
	Discrimination -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
	Minorities -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
	LAW / Discrimination.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
	Affirmative action programs. (OCoLC)fst00798899
	Affirmative action programs in education. (OCoLC)fst01201993
	Discrimination -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00894988
	Minorities -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01023165
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781101870877 (hard cover : alk. paper)
	1101870877 (hard cover : alk. paper)
	9781101870884 (e-book)

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