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Protesting Affirmative Action - The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution (Paperback)
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Protesting Affirmative Action - The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Reconfiguring American Political History
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A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike,
affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in
the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here
offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race-
and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher
education and the workplace. This story begins more than fifteen
years before the 1978 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Regents of
the University of California v. Bakke. Partisans attacked
affirmative action almost immediately after it first appeared in
the 1960s. Liberals in the opposition movement played an especially
significant role. While not completely against the initiative,
liberal opponents strove for "soft" affirmative action
(recruitment, financial aid, remedial programs) and against "hard"
affirmative action (numerical goals, quotas). In the process of
balancing ideals of race and gender equality with competing notions
of colorblindness and meritocracy, they even borrowed the language
of the civil rights era to make far-reaching claims about equality,
justice, and citizenship in their anti-affirmative action rhetoric.
Deslippe traces this conflict through compelling case studies of
real people and real jobs. He asks what the introduction of
affirmative action meant to the careers and livelihoods of Seattle
steelworkers, New York asbestos handlers, St. Louis firemen,
Detroit policemen, City University of New York academics, and
admissions counselors at the University of Washington Law School.
Through their experiences, Deslippe examines the diverse reactions
to affirmative action, concluding that workers had legitimate
grievances against its hiring and promotion practices. In studying
this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American
democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and
shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s
and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action
many Americans still hold today.
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