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Affirmative Action - Origins, Controversies and Contradictions (Paperback)
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Affirmative Action - Origins, Controversies and Contradictions (Paperback)
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Affirmative action is one of the most controversial policies of our
time. This book provides a succinct but comprehensive account of
the historical background of affirmative action, including the
complicated racial history that gave rise to it and the changing
meaning of affirmative action in government and law, giving special
attention to the role of the civil rights movement. The book traces
the major court decisions that have defined how affirmative action
policies in education and employment may be used and that have
defined the limitations of these policies. It gives particular
attention to the emergence of the diversity rationale and to how
this became the central legal justification for affirmative action.
The book describes how the Supreme Court has been as divided as
American society in general on the question of affirmative action.
It discusses the relevance of the changing composition of the
American population for affirmative action, giving special
attention to the Latino and Asian groups that have been the
greatest part of demographic change in the United States. It
considers the ways in which diversity has become a complicated
concept in this changing society. These pages also devote attention
to arguments that racial and ethnic affirmative action should be
replaced by efforts of socioeconomic affirmative action that would
be more relevant to contemporary American society. Following this
discussion of social and economic change, this brief volume
examines the different ways in which affirmative action is a
problematic approach to social inequality. The book suggests that
inequality is deeply rooted in social networks and cultural
patterns, and that inequality therefore does not lend itself to
redesign through planning. It suggests, further, that affirmative
action is based on the idea that upward mobility can be selectively
encouraged across groups, without recognizing that universal upward
movement is not possible. It provides an even-handed consideration
of the mismatch, qualification and stigma arguments. Finally, the
book looks at the possible future of affirmative action,
considering pressures working against preferential policies in
employment, education and the substantial support that these
policies will continue to have.
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