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Title Understanding affirmative action : politics, discrimination, and the search for justice / J. Edward Kellough.
Author Kellough, J. Edward.
Publication Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2006]
Copyright date ©2006
Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call # 342.73087 K
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy -- Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity -- Affirmative action and preferential selection -- Assessing the argument : a review of the case for affirmative action -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints -- Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action -- Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action -- Affirmative action in the Twenty-first century.
Subject Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Affirmative action programs in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
ISBN 1589010892 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
9781589010895 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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