"More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008…
"Sunita Parikh examines the history and fate of affirmative action programs in two ethnically heterogeneous democracies, the United States and India. Affirmative action programs in the United States represent a controversial policy about which the American public feel at best am…
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Summary provided by publisher
Covers "government-mandated preferences for government-designated groups ... with special attention to programs in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and the United States.
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A century ago, universities were primarily in the business of molding upper-class young men for the professions. The world has changed, and universities have been forced to keep pace by experimenting with affirmative action, curriculum overhauls, part-time degree programs, and t…
"Created by Congress in 1953, the SBA does not conform to traditional interpretations of interests-group democracy. Even though the public - and Congress - favors small enterprise, there has never been a unified group of small business owners requesting the government's help. In…
In this provocative and important book, Bryan K. Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories - America's and his own - to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that,…
How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? This work addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s, just as courts, universities, and other institutions b…
Collection of the author's writings on different social issues.
From its inception in the 1960s, affirmative action has created heated debates about how to deal with past and present racism within the arena of education. Speaker, consultant and author Wise believes educators should heed the warning signs of the demise of affirmative action, …
