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Affirmative action for the future / James P. Sterba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterba, James P.
- Series:
- Cornell paperbacks.
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States.
- Affirmative action programs.
- Affirmative action programs--United States.
- Affirmative action programs in education--United States.
- Affirmative action programs in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 132 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press, c2009.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In.
- Contents:
- Current racial and sexual discrimination
- A legal history of race-and sex-based affirmative action
- How best to define affirmative action
- A defense of outreach affirmative action
- A defense of remedial affirmative action
- Objections to remedial affirmative action
- A defense of diversity affirmative action
- Objections to diversity affirmative action
- Affirmative action around the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5760-2
- 0-8014-5884-6
- OCLC:
- 726824172
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