RIGHTS GONE WRONG: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality - Softcover

FORD, RICHARD THOMPSON

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ISBN 10: 1250013925 ISBN 13: 9781250013927

Verlag: Picador, 2012

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"Rights Gone Wrong is sharp and surprising, and casts the discrimination debate in a clarifying new light." --Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times Book Review

"Ford has written a highly accessible narrative that underscores the need for Americans to roll up their sleeves and do the heavy lifting necessary to address persistent economic and racial inequality....With this book, Ford has in effect contributed a new placard to the American protest march." --America magazine

"Cogent...A rationalist analysis of the efficacy of a multitude of antidiscrimination laws...All sides can learn much from Ford's thinking." --Publishers Weekly

"Persuasive...This subject tends to produce polemical writing on both sides, but Ford is consistently measured and thought-provoking. Recommended to anyone interested in public affairs." --Library Journal

Reseña del editor:

"Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimina­tion and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice--including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance--a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discrimina­tion? It's tempting to believe that civil rights litigation can combat these social ills as efficiently as it has fought blatant discrimination. In Rights Gone Wrong, Richard Thompson Ford, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Race Card, argues that this is seldom the case. Civil rights do too much and not enough: opportunists use them to get a competitive edge in schools and job markets, while special-interest groups use them to demand special privileges. Extremists on both the left and the right have hijacked civil rights for personal advantage. Worst of all, their theatrics have drawn attention away from more seri­ous social injustices. Ford, a professor of law at Stanford University, shows us the many ways in which civil rights can go terribly wrong. He examines newsworthy lawsuits with shrewdness and humor, proving that the distinction between civil rights and personal entitlements is often anything but clear. Finally, he reveals how many of today's social injustices actually can't be remedied by civil rights law, and demands more creative and nuanced solutions. In order to live up to the legacy of the civil rights movement, we must renew our commitment to civil rights, and move beyond them"--

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250013925
• ISBN 13: 9781250013927
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270