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The affirmative action debate / edited by Steven M. Cahn.
Lippincott Library HF5549.5.A34 A4632 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs--United States.
- Affirmative action programs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 233 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Contents:
- I. Individuals, Groups, and Discrimination
- 1 Discrimination and Morally Relevant Characteristics / James W. Nickel 3
- 2 Inverse Discrimination / J.L. Cowan 5
- 3 Reparations to Wronged Groups / Michael D. Bayles 8
- 4 Reverse Discrimination and Compensatory Justice / Paul W. Taylor 11
- 5 Reverse Discrimination / William A. Nunn III 17
- 6 Should Reparations Be to Individuals or to Groups? / James W. Nickel 20
- 7 Reparations to Individuals or Groups? / Alan H. Goldman 27
- 8 What's Wrong with Discrimination? / Paul Woodruff 30
- II. Justice and Compensation
- 9 Preferential Hiring / Judith Jarvis Thomson 35
- 10 Preferential Hiring: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson / Robert Simon 51
- 11 Justifying Reverse Discrimination in Employment / George Sher 58
- 12 Preferential Hiring and Compensation / Robert K. Fullinwider 68
- 13 Compensatory Justice: The Question of Costs / Robert Amdur 79
- III. The Bakke Case
- 14 Who Are Equals? / Carl Cohen 95
- 15 Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair? / Ronald Dworkin 103
- 16 What Did Bakke Really Decide? / Ronald Dworkin 113
- 17 Equality, Diversity, and Good Faith / Carl Cohen 124
- IV. Diversity
- 18 In Defense of Affirmative Action / Barbara R. Bergmann 145
- 19 The Role Model Argument and Faculty Diversity / Anita L. Allen 153
- 20 Proportional Representation of Women and Minorities / Celia Wolf-Devine 168
- 21 The Meaning of "Merit" / William G. Bowen, Derek Bok 176
- 22 Does Your "Merit" Depend upon Your Race? A Rejoinder to Bowen and Bok / Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom 183
- 23 Diversity / George Sher 190
- V. Preference or Impartiality?
- 24 In Favor of Affirmative Action / Tom L. Beauchamp 209
- 25 Reverse Discrimination / Sidney Hook 224.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 041593866X
- 0415938678
- OCLC:
- 49959320
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