The Anti-Civil Rights Movement : Affirmative Action As Wedge and Weapon / Mike Steve Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Michael S., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Affirmative action programs.

Affirmative action programs in education--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Affirmative action programs in education.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

Asian Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.

Asian Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History.

Civil rights movements.

Equality before the law--United States--History.

Equality before the law.

Political questions and judicial power--United States--History.

Political questions and judicial power.

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.

Marshall, Thurgood.

Thomas, Clarence, 1948-.

Thomas, Clarence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2024]

Summary:

"Collins views American society as being trapped in the so-called prisoner's dilemma. According to this classic piece of game theory, two prisoners whose interests would normally be aligned are put in a situation that compels them to betray their solidarity with each other. As Collins tells it, all of us are prisoners, and if we banded together we could create policies that would lead to a better, happier world. But those leading the Anti-Civil Rights Movement, such as Edward Blum, have repeatedly found ways to split coalitions-to pit marginalized groups against each others-whenever those coalitions have threatened the power of conservative elites to set the political and legal agenda. One of the central tools in the conservative arsenal has been affirmative action, which has had a long history of dividing the Asian American and Black American communities, going back to the anti-busing sentiment among Chinese Americans in San Francisco in the early 1970s. In 2013, the same year he helped gut the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County v. Holder case, Blum created the Students for Fair Admissions and brought a suit against Harvard University for discriminating against Asian Americans-the latest in a long string of prisoner dilemmas designed to undermine social progress. Collins's groundbreaking work is a field guide to the personalities, funding, and dilemmas that characterize the war between the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Civil Rights Movement-between the forces represented, respectively, by Thurgood Marshall and the one who replaced him on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas. Reading this book helps readers better understand the battles that have been fought in the past, but also where the next fight might take place, and what might be necessary in order to win"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Running Thurgood ragged

The search for deep equality

The rise of Chinese for affirmative action

The coalition splits

Backlash, Inc.

Bakke : the making of a dagger

The stipulation

Certiorari

The contest for say inside the court

The American mind after Bakkeo

The equality matrix

Sea change

Reagan justice

Originalism from Strom Thurmond to Edwin Meese

World making, originalist style

Clint Bolick goes to war

The 10 percent solution

Proposition

The rise of Edward Blum

Conservative Three-Card Monte

CIR vs. Michigan

The meaning of 20 points

Shanta driver takes on the Tsunami

Blum takes over.

Notes:

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700637133

0700637133

OCLC:

1493506086