Protesting affirmative action
Subtitle: the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution
By: Dennis Deslippe
Series: Reconfiguring American political history; Reconfiguring American political history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781421403588
Subjects: Race relations; Equality; Race discrimination; Affirmative action programs; Law and legislation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74; title: "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72; title: "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education; title: Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s; title: "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and; title: Color-blindness in the courtroom; title: "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s; title: "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke; title: Conclusion.