Title: Affirmative discrimination : ethnic inequality and public policy /
Authors: Glazer, Nathan
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Public Policy; Minorities United States; Discrimination United States; Equality before the law United States; Affirmative action programs United States; Discrimination, Psychological
Abstract: Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United States; evaluates public policies in the areas of employment, education, and housing; and questions the judgment and wisdom of their underlying premises--their focus on group rights, rather than individual rights. Such policies, he argues, are ineffective, unnecessary, and politically destructive of harmonious relations among the races.Updated with a long, new introduction by the author, Affirmative Discrimination will enable citizens as well as scholars to better understand and evaluate public policies for achieving social justice in a multiethnic society.
Contents: The emergence of an American ethnic pattern -- Affirmative action in employment : from equal opportunity to statistical parity -- Affirmative action in educaton : the issue of busing -- Affirmative action in housing : overcoming residential segregation -- The White ethnic political reaction -- Morality, politics, and the future of affirmative action.