Protesting affirmative action [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / / Dennis Deslippe

• Autore: Deslippe Dennis
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.173
• Soggetto topico: Affirmative action programs - United States - History; Equality - United States - History; Race discrimination - United States - History; Affirmative action programs - Law and legislation - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74 -- "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72 -- "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education -- Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s -- "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and -- Color-blindness in the courtroom -- "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s -- "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke -- Conclusion.
• Titolo autorizzato: Protesting affirmative action
• ISBN: 1-4214-0431-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463871403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reconfiguring American Political History