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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kellough, J. Edward.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
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 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.