Protesting affirmative action the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution /

Deslippe, Dennis.

Protesting affirmative action the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / [electronic resource] : Dennis Deslippe. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. - xii, 282 p. - Reconfiguring American political history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781421404318 (electronic bk.)




Affirmative action programs--History.--United States
Equality--History.--United States
Race discrimination--History.--United States
Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States.


United States--Race relations--History.


Electronic books.

HF5549.5.A34 / D427 2012

323.173