Ending Racial Preferences - The Michigan Story (Hardcover)

In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story relates what happened from the vantage point of Toward A Fair Michigan (TAFM), a nonprofit organization that provided a civic forum for the discussion of preferences. The book offers a timely "inside look" into how TAFM fostered dialogue by emphasizing education over indoctrination, reason over rhetoric, and civil debate over protest. Ending Racial Preferences opens with a review of the campaigns for and against similar initiatives in California, Florida, Washington, and the city of Houston. The book then delivers an in-depth historical account of the MCRI-from its inception in 2003 through the first year following its passage in 2006. Readers are invited to decide for themselves whether affirmative action preferences are good for America. Carol M. Allen reproduces the remarks delivered at a TAFM debate, along with a compilation of pro and con responses by 14 experts to 50 questions about preferences. This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of public policy and state politics.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Lexington Studies in Political Communication
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	June 2008
Editors:	Carol M Allen
Contributors:	William B. Allen • Barbara J. Grutter
Dimensions:	241 x 167 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	440
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-2433-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General
LSN:	0-7391-2433-1
Barcode:	9780739124338

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