Wounds that will not heal : affirmative action and our continuing racial divide / Russell K. Nieli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nieli, Russell, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affirmative action programs--United States.

Affirmative action programs.

Affirmative action programs in education--United States.

Affirmative action programs in education.

Discrimination in employment--United States.

Discrimination in employment.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who had fought the good fight against segregation and Jim Crow to further a color-blind justice, with a sense of outrage and deep betrayal. In the more than forty years that preference policies have been with us little has changed in terms of public opinion, as polls indicate that a majority of Am

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. A Nation Of Individual Citizens Or A Confederation Of Contending Tribes?; II. Are Racial Preferences An Antidote To Racism?; III. The Changing Shape of the River: Affirmative Action And Some Recent Social Science Research; IV. Diversity And Its Discontents: The Contact Hypothesis Under Fire; V. Selling Merit Down The River; VI. Still America's Continuing Dilemma; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594035838

1594035830

OCLC:

819607167