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Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution
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Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / Dennis Deslippe.
ISBN
9781421403588 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421403587 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 14, 2012
Series
Reconfiguring American political history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74
"This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72
"The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education
Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s
"Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and
Color-blindness in the courtroom
"Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s
"The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke
Conclusion.
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