Color Lines Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America

Name: Color Lines Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America
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ISBN: 9780226761824

ISBN-10: 0226761827

ISBN-13: 9780226761824

Edition: 2001

Authors: John D. Skrentny

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A new ethnic order has emerged in the United States. The growing number of Latinos and Asians has rendered the old black-and-white binary obsolete. And yet, political pundits and commentators on both the left and the right continue to overlook the changing face of discrimination and opportunity in today's new multiethnic, multiracial America. With Color Lines, John David Skrentny brings us a collection of essays that reexamines the role of affirmative action and civil rights in light of this important shift in American demographics. The book explores issues of public policy, equal opportunity, diversity, multiculturalism, pathways to better work and higher learning, and attempts in…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

John David Skrentny is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Contributors


Introduction




Affirmative Action in Multiethnic America: Policy History and Analysis



Breaking Through: The Troubled Origins of Affirmative Action in the Workplace




Affirmative Action for Immigrants? The Unintended Consequences of Reform




Deconstructing Affirmative Action Categories




How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management: Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961-1996




Anatomy of Conflict: The Making and Unmaking of Affirmative Action at the University of California




Afro-Americans and Immigrants in the Workplace



Producing Conflict: Immigration and Management of Diversity in the Multiethnic Metropolis




The Racial and Ethnic Meaning behind Black: Retailers' Hiring Practices in Inner-City Neighborhoods




The Views of Multiethinc America



Race, Interests, and Beliefs about Affirmative Action: Unanswered Questions and New Directions




Understanding Racial Polarization on Affirmative Action: The View from Focus Groups




Civil Rights and Affirmative Action beyond America



Positive Action or Affirmative Action? The Persistence of Britain's Antidiscrimination Regime




The French Model: Color-Blind Integration




Affirmative Action, Caste, and Party Politics in Contemporary India




Affirmative Action and Ethnic Niches: A Legal Afterword



Index