Protesting affirmative action the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deslippe, Dennis.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series:Reconfiguring American political history
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Table of Contents:
  • "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74
  • "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72
  • "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education
  • Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s
  • "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and
  • Color-blindness in the courtroom
  • "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s
  • "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke
  • Conclusion.