The affirmative action debate
By: edited by Steven M. Cahn
Contributors: Cahn, Steven M
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Affirmative action programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Discrimination and morally relevant characteristics / James W. Nickel; title: Inverse discrimination / J.L. Cowan; title: Reparations to wronged groups / Michael D. Bayles; title: Reverse discrimination and compensatory justice / Paul W. Taylor; title: Reverse discrimination / William A. Nunn III; title: Should reparations be to individuals or to groups? / James W. Nickel; title: Reparations to individuals or groups? / Alan H. Goldman; title: What's wrong with discrimination? / Paul Woodruff; title: Preferential hiring / Judith Jarvis Thomson; title: Preferential hiring : a reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson / Robert Simon; title: Justifying reverse discrimination in employment / George Sher; title: Preferential hiring and compensation / Robert K. Fullinwider; title: Compensatory justice : the question of costs / Robert Amdur; title: Who are equals? / Carl Cohen; title: Bakke's case : are quotas unfair? / Ronald Dworkin; title: What did Bakke really decide? / Ronald Dworkin; title: Equality, diversity, and good faith / Carl Cohen; title: In defense of affirmative action / Barbara R. Bergmann; title: The role model argument and faculty diversity / Anita L. Allen; title: Proportional representation of women and minorities / Celia Wolf-Devine; title: The meaning of "merit" / William G. Bowen and Derek Bok; title: Does your "merit" depend upon your race? A rejoinder to Bowen and Bok / Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom; title: Diversity / George Sher; title: In favor of affirmative action / Tom L. Beauchamp; title: Reverse discrimination / Sidney Hook