1 option
Affirmative action, ethnicity, and conflict / edited by Edmund Terence Gomez and Ralph Premdas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
- Routledge Malaysian studies series ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conflict.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes came about and how they have been implemented, and examines their effectiveness. Throughout it explores how far affirmative action programmes reinforce ethnic identities and thereby contribute to division and conflict. The countries covered are India, the United States, South Africa, Norther
- Contents:
- 1. Poverty, equality, and affirmative action in India / Sunita Parikh
- 2. The struggle for equality and justice : affirmative action in the United States of America / Ralph Premdas
- 3. Ethnicity, economy, and affirmative action in Malaysia / Hwok-Aun Lee, Edmund Terence Gomez, and Shakila Yacob
- 4. Coerced preferences : affirmative action and horizontal inequality in Fiji / Steven Ratuva
- 5. Affirmative action in South Africa : disadvantaging the many for the benefit of the few / Anthea Jeffery
- 6. Power-sharing, communal contestation, and equality : affirmative action, identity, and conflict in Northern Ireland / Colin Harvey
- 7. Appraising affirmative action in Brazil / Joaze Bernardino-Costa and Fernando Rosa.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-15718-2
- 0-415-62768-0
- 0-203-07883-7
- 1-283-86079-1
- 1-136-15719-0
- 9780203078839
- OCLC:
- 820630746
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.