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Titolo: | Minorities and the law / / Noel Merino, book editor |
Pubblicazione: | Farmington Hills, Mich. : , : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, , [2015] |
�2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (115 pages) |
Disciplina: | 323.11 |
Soggetto topico: | Minorities - United States - Social conditions |
Justice, Administration of - United States | |
Human rights - United States | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MerinoNoel |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Prison's dilemma / Glenn C. Loury -- 2. The criminal justice system is not unfair to minorities / John Perazzo -- 3. The war on marijuana in black and white / American Civil Liberties Union -- 4. The policy of stop-and-frisk targets young men of color / Scott Stringer -- 5. Stop-and-frisk protects minorities / Michael Barone -- 6. Minimum-wage madness / Thomas Sowell -- 7. A higher minimum wage will not hurt minorities or eliminate jobs / Richard Eskow -- 8. Opposition to voter ID laws is insulting to minorities / David Limbaugh -- 9. Voter ID laws disenfranchise minority voters / Jeremiah Goulka -- 10. The US Supreme Court rrred in tevising the Voting Rights Act / Andrew Cohen -- 11. The US Supreme Court was correct to revise the Voting Rights Act / Hans A. von Spakovsky -- 12. Where do Americans stand on affirmative action? / Jamelle Bouie -- 13. Do race preferences help students? / Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. -- 14. The next affirmative action / Kevin Carey -- 15. Affirmative action should be based on hardship not race / Ben Carson. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Minorities and the law |
ISBN: | 0-7377-7644-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910162721003321 |
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