Protesting Affirmative Action : The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution.

Dennis. Deslippe
Bok · Engelsk · 2012 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (297 pages)
Utgave	1st ed.
Opplysninger	Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Initialisms -- Introduction -- 1 "The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960-1974 -- 2 "This Strange Madness": The Origins of Opposition to Higher Education Affirmative Action, 1968-1972 -- 3 "This Issue Is Getting Hotter": The Struggle over Affirmative Action Policy in the Early 1970s -- 4 "Treat Him as a Decent American!": DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Colorblindness in the Courtroom -- 5 "Do Whites Have Rights?": White Detroit Policemen and the "Reverse Discrimination" Protests of the 1970s -- 6 "The Fight for True Nondiscrimination": The Politics of Anti-Affirmative Action in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.. - In studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today.
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	323.173
ISBN	9781421404318
ISBN(galt)	9781421403588