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Who's qualified? / Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm.
Lippincott Library HF5549.5.A34 G85 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guinier, Lani.
- Series:
- New democracy forum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs--United States.
- Affirmative action programs.
- United States.
- Employee selection--United States.
- Employee selection.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Admission.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 117 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color -- to make the system more fair. For over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to whites, and even un-American.
- Guinier and Sturm critique affirmative action as too modest a remedy, arguing that it doesn't go far enough -- either for the people it includes or the people it leaves out. They expose the failure of tests to predict success, and ask us to rethink how we evaluate qualification for everyone, not just the beneficiaries of affirmative action. Offering a model of selection based on performance, not prediction, the authors' vision of an old ideal is at once a smart business practice and a step toward the promise of democratic opportunity. A lively debate including Claude M. Steele. Howard Gardner, Derrick Bell, and Peter Sacks ensues.
- Contents:
- 1 The Future of Affirmative Action / Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier 3
- 2 Mending Affirmative Action / Stephen Steinberg 37
- Love's Labor Lost? Why Racial Fairness Is a Threat to Many White Americans / Derrick Bell 42
- Vygotsky to the Rescue! / Howard Gardner 49
- The Promise of Diversity / Mary C. Waters, Carolyn Boyes-Watson 55
- Understanding the Performance Gap / Claude M. Steele 60
- Too Formal? / Paul Osterman 68
- It's Still a Test / Maureen A. Scully, Deborah M. Kolb 74
- Diversity and Capitalism / Michael J. Piore 78
- Pseudo-meritocracy / Peter Sacks 84
- What's Fair? / Peter Cappelli 89
- 3 Reply / Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier 97.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-115).
- ISBN:
- 0807043354
- OCLC:
- 46449023
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