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. |
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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 |
Other authors / contributors: | Taylor, Stuart, Jr., 1948- author. |
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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. |
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