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

By: Deslippe, DennisContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconfiguring American political historyPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Description: xii, 282 pISBN: 9781421404318 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History | Equality -- United States -- History | Race discrimination -- United States -- History | Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States | United States -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.173 LOC classification: HF5549.5.A34 | D427 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"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.
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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.

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