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The affirmative action debate / edited by George E. Curry ; with contributions by Cornel West ... [et al.].

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  1. The affirmative action debate / edited by George E. Curry ; with contributions by Cornel West ... [et al.].
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  1. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1996]

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Additional authors
  1. Curry, George E.
  2. West, Cornel
Description
  1. xv, 368 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. Politicians, executives, lawyers, and social researchers discuss affirmative action policies, their benefits and problems, and alternative solutions to discrimination.
Subject
  1. Affirmative action programs -- United States
  2. Affirmative action programs -- Political aspects -- United States
Contents
  1. Staying on the path to racial equality / Manning Marable -- To fulfill these rights / Lyndon B. Johnson -- A personal footnote in history / Arthur A. Fletcher -- Affirmative action in context / Cornel West -- Affirmative action in the workplace / Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Performing without a net / Glenn C. Loury -- Diversity in corporate America / A. Barry Rand -- Who has benefited from affirmative action in employment? / Heidi Hartmann -- The business of affirmative action / Anthony W. Robinson -- Personal responsibility / Robert L. Woodson, Sr. --
  2. (cont.) Why America needs set-aside programs / Kweisi Mfume -- An experiment gone awry / William Bradford Reynolds -- Standing in the right place / Deval L. Patrick -- Race and the Supreme Court's 1994-95 term / Elaine R. Jones -- The Supreme Court ruled correctly in Adarand / Todd S. Welch -- The minority-majority society / Pete Wilson -- Why women need affirmative action / Judy L. Lichtman, Jocelyn C. Frye, Helen Norton -- Invisible Latinos : excluded from discussion of inclusion / Harry P. Pachon -- Beyond the model minority myth / Theodore Hsien Wang, Frank H. Wu -- Sitting in for diversity / Victoria Valle --
  3. The color line and the "thin blue line" / Wade Henderson -- Affirmative action in the army : why it works / Charles Moskos -- Tracing the politics of affirmative action / Linda Faye Williams -- Mend it, don't end it / Bill Clinton -- The meaning of American equality / Charles T. Canady -- Race-baiting and the 1996 presidential campaign / Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- Affirmative action : why we need it, why it is under attack / Mary Frances Berry -- Promoting racial harmony / Linda Chavez -- The future of affirmative action / Louis Harris.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-342) and index.
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