LEADER 05942oam 22007094a 450 001 9910972247503321 005 20250611235136.0 010 $a9780700620432 010 $a0700620435 035 $a(CKB)2560000000305135 035 $a(MH)014247329-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370598 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11755618 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370598 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11293118 035 $a(PQKB)10492344 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5244756 035 $a(OCoLC)894024721 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31274735 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31274735 035 $a(Perlego)532890 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000305135 100 $a20140519d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Conflict of Principles $eThe Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan /$fCarl Cohen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLawrence, Kansas :$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 302 pages ) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781336186408 311 08$a1336186402 311 08$a9780700619962 311 08$a0700619968 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Carl Cohen, a left-wing philosophy professor at the University of Michigan who had long fought for civil rights and individual liberty, strongly believed that racial justice can only be attained in a society that is color-blind and that does not operate on the basis of quotas related to race, gender, religion or ethnicity. These beliefs lead Cohen to become a strong opponent of affirmative action in higher education, a battle that divided him from his normal allies on the left and that was waged in part at the university with which Cohen has been associated for over 50 years. In this book he tells the story of how he came to be a strong opponent of affirmative action in university admissions policies and the battles he fought at Michigan"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a""No state. shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination--calling it "affirmative action"--he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in an effort to defend the equal treatment of the races at his university. In A Conflict of Principles Cohen tells the story of what happened at Michigan, how racial preferences were devised and implemented there, and what was at stake in the heated and divisive controversy that ensued. He gives voice to the judicious and seldom heard liberal argument against affirmative action in college admission policies. In the early 1970s, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cohen vigorously supported programs devised to encourage the recruitment of minorities in colleges, and in private employment. But some of these efforts gave deliberate preference to blacks and Hispanics seeking university admission, and this Cohen recognized as a form of racism, however well-meaning. In his book he recounts the fortunes of contested affirmative action programs as they made their way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, beginning with DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) at the University of Washington Law School, then Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) at the Medical School on the UC Davis campus, and culminating at the University of Michigan in the landmark cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003). He recounts his role in the initiation of the Michigan cases, explaining the many arguments against racial preferences in college admissions. He presents a principled case for the resultant amendment to the Michigan constitution, of which he was a prominent advocate, which prohibited preference by race in public employment and public contracting, as well as in public education. An eminently readable personal, consistently fair-minded account of the principles and politics that come into play in the struggles over affirmative action, A Conflict of Principles is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to our national conversation about race"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLAW / Discrimination$2bisacsh 606 $aLAW / Civil Rights$2bisacsh 606 $aAffirmative action programs in education$xLaw and legislation$zMichigan 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$xLaw and legislation$zMichigan 606 $aDiscrimination in higher education$xLaw and legislation$zMichigan 615 7$aLAW / Discrimination. 615 7$aLAW / Civil Rights. 615 0$aAffirmative action programs in education$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aDiscrimination in higher education$xLaw and legislation 676 $a344.774/0798 686 $aLAW013000$aLAW094000$2bisacsh 700 $aCohen$b Carl$f1931-2023,$01822546 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972247503321 996 $aA Conflict of Principles$94393302 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress