Affirmative action /
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| Author / Creator: | Johnson, John W., 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, c2009. |
| Description: | xiv, 199 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical guides to controversial issues in America |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7725687 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Debate over Affirmative Action
- 1. Protecting White Men's Jobs
- 2. The Great Society and the Birth of Affirmative Action
- 3. Affirmative Action Takes Shape
- 4. DeFunis and Bakke: Judicial Challenges to Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the 1970s
- 5. The Limits of Employment Affirmative Action, 1970s-1990s
- 6. Affirmative Action Defended and Attacked: The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
- 7. Two Tales from One City: The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases
- 8. Desegregation, Resegregation, and Affirmative Action
- Conclusion: Where the Affirmative Action Debate Stands Today
- Affirmative Action Time Line
- Selected Materials and Readings on Affirmative Action
- Index
