Affirmative action
By: Leora Maltz, book editor.
Contributors: Maltz, Leora.
Series: At issue; At issue (San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press; Cengage Gale
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Discrimination in higher education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission; Educational equalization -- United States; Affirmative action programs in education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Affirmative action : an overview / David C. Slade; title: Affirmative action helps minorities / Charles J. Ogletree Jr.; title: Affirmative action harms minorities / Clarence Thomas; title: Affirmative action encourages diversity / Commonweal; title: Diversity should not be legislated by affirmative action / Peter H. Schuck; title: Affirmative action hurts white people / Anne Hull; title: The claim that affirmative action hurts white people is a myth / Goodwin Liu; title: Affirmative action is necessary in higher education / Patricia Gurin et al.; title: Affirmative action has no place in higher education / Richard F. Tomasson; title: Affirmative action policies should consider class, not race / Richard D. Kahlenberg; title: Affirmative action policies must consider race / Glenn C. Loury; title: Affirmative action benefits American society / Carol Moseley Braun; title: Affirmative action is constitutional / Jamin B. Raskin.