The Affirmative Action Debate

ISBN 10: 020147963X / ISBN 13: 9780201479638

Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

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The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such questions as, How did affirmative-action policies come to be? Who benefits most from them, and who suffers? How do these programs work in hiring, contracting, college admissions, and other fields? What will recent Supreme Court rulings and legislative initiatives mean? And, most fundamentally, does any race-conscious remedy simply perpetuate discrimination? Recognizing affirmative action as more than a black-and-white issue, this book includes the voices of women, Latinos, and Asian-Americans who are also affected but often ignored. A sourcebook of solid facts and surprising arguments, The Affirmative Action Debate is the one book you need to understand and discuss the nation's sharpest political divide.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: George E. Curry is the editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular panelist on Lead Story," the BET network's news-analysis program, and has been New York bureau chief and Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Affirmative Action Debate
Verlag: Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good