Mismatch : how affirmative action hurts students it's intended to help, and why universities won't admit it /

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Author / Creator:Sander, Richard Henry, 1956- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2012]
Description:xix, 348 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8921178
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Other authors / contributors:Taylor, Stuart, Jr., 1948- author.
ISBN:9780465029969
0465029965
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
Summary:Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.