For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

Name: For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
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ISBN: 9780307907370

ISBN-10: 0307907376

ISBN-13: 9780307907370

Edition: N/A

Authors: Randall Kennedy

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By the author of theNew York Timesbest-sellerNigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Wordand, more recently,The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency("Provocative and richly insightful."—Brent Staples,The New York Times Book Review; "Excellent."—David Remnick,The New Yorker)The definitive reckoning with one of the most explosively contentious and sharply divisive issues in American society, a book extraordinary for its cool reason and genuine fairness—at once a recollection of the little-known history of affirmative action and an anatomy of its pros and cons.

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List price: $28.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.52" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Growing Up with Affirmative Action



Affirmative Action in the History of American Race Relations



The Affirmative Action Policy Debate: The Key Arguments Pro and Con



The Color-Blind Challenge to Affirmative Action



The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: The Case of Higher Education



Reflections on the Future of the Affirmative Action Controversy


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index