Color Bind : California's Battle to End Affirmative Action / / Lydia Chávez; ed. by Lydia Chávez

• Autore: Chávez Lydia
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1998]; 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.13/3/09794
• Soggetto topico: Affirmative action programs - California; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
• Soggetto non controllato: Affirmative action programs; California; Business & economics; Political science
• Persona (resp. second.): ChávezLydia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Origins: Canon and Culture Wars on Campus -- 2. Hitting a Nerve: The Angry White Males of 1994 -- 3. The Opposition: The Split between Northern and Southern California -- 4. The Republican Party and Affirmative Action: How a Wedge Issue Cuts Many Ways -- 5. Feminists, Minorities, and the Democratic Party: Democrats Search for a New Identity Politics -- 6. The Ground War at Ground Zero: An Attempt to Revive the Grassroots -- 7. Countdown: A Defining Moment, or the Color Bind -- 8. Stumbling to the Finish Line: Dole Grasps for Proposition 209 and the Opposition Reaches for David Duke -- Afterword -- Appendix A. Cast of Characters -- Appendix B. Time Line -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation. Going behind the mass media coverage of the initiative, Lydia Chávez narrates the complex underlying motivations and maneuvering of the people, organizations, and political parties involved in the campaign to end affirmative action in California.For the first time, the role of University of California regent Ward Connerly in the campaign-one largely assigned to public relations-is put into perspective. In the course of the book Chávez also provides a rare behind-the-scenes journalistic account of the complex and fascinating workings of the initiative process. Chávez recreates the post-election climate of 1994, when the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) appeared to be the right-time, right-place vehicle for Governor Pete Wilson and other Republican presidential prospects. President Clinton and the state Democratic Party thought the CCRI would splinter the party and jeopardize the upcoming presidential election. The Republicans, who saw the CCRI as a "wedge issue" to use against the Democrats, found to their surprise that the initiative was much more divisive in their own party.Updating her text to include the most current material, Chávez deftly delineates the interplay of competing interests around the CCRI, and explains why the opposition was unsuccessful in its strategy to fight the initiative. Her analysis probes the momentous-and national-implications of this state initiative in shaping the future of affirmative action in this country.
• Titolo autorizzato: Color Bind
• ISBN: 0-520-92083-X; 0-585-05424-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495955203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II