Affirmative Action The Pros and Cons of Policy Practice,9780742502109

Affirmative Action The Pros and Cons of Policy Practice

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780742502109
ISBN10: 0742502104
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-25
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Hailed at the time of its original publication as a thorough and balanced debate of one of America's most vexing political issues, Affirmative Action employs a pro and con format to provide a concise introduction to this divisive debate. In a new, substantive introduction, Richard F. Tomasson offers a short history of the affirmative action debate and addresses new developments since the book's original appearance.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Richard F. Tomasson
Part One For Affirmative Action
Faye J. Crosby
Sharon D. Herzberger
Acknowledgments
The Issues
5(6)
Defining Affirmative Action
11(16)
Underlying Issue of Need
27(14)
Fairness and Affirmative Action
41(16)
The Effectiveness of Affirmative Action
57(8)
Making Affirmative Action Work
65(20)
The Promise of Affirmative Action
85(40)
Notes
91(8)
References
99(14)
Part Two Against Affirmative Action
Richard F. Tomasson
Acknowledgments
113(4)
Section One Affirmative Action: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed (And Perhaps Never Was)
Prologue
117(8)
The Origins of Affirmative Action
125(10)
The Varieties of Affirmative Action
135(8)
Affirmative Action's High-Water Mark: Johnson v. Santa Clara County (1987)
143(14)
The Lowering of the Tide: Affirmative Action after Johnson
157(18)
Section Two The Insuperable Problems of Affirmative Action
Introduction
173(2)
Affirmative Action for Whom?
175(14)
Affirmative Action in Education
189(8)
Group Differences Won't Go Away
197(8)
Affirmative Action for Blacks? Hispanics? Women? the Disadvantaged?
205(30)
The People and Affirmative Action
235(34)
Appendix One
249(2)
Appendix Two
251(4)
Notes
255(8)
References
263(6)
Index 269(6)
About the Authors 275

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