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Affirmative Action - Couverture souple

Beckwith, Francis

 
9781573921572: Affirmative Action
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1573921572 ISBN 13 : 9781573921572
Editeur : G38-Prometheus, 1997

Synopsis

What is our goal: equal opportunity or equality of result? The debate rages on.

The November 5, 1996 decision by voters in California to eliminate most forms of state sanctioned affirmative action ignited a civil rights debate that sent shock waves across the country. The vote had critics celebrating the dawn of a new era of equal rights, while opponents warned of school and workplace discrimination without the protective blanket of affirmative action.

The question of racial equality has inspired new debate today, reminiscent of the conflicts of the 1960s. Again we ask ourselves: Is affirmative action necessary to maintain equal labor practices, school desegregation plans, and broad social standards of racial equality? Does affirmative action or laws to roll it back go against the idea of equality itself? Should race play an important role in college admissions and corporate hiring? Is affirmative action a poison instead of a cure? For some, it depends on how the term is defined.

These and other questions are debated in this highly charged collection of essays by a distinguished group of politicians, philosophers, educators, and others including Tom Beauchamp, Ward Connerly, Ronald Dworkin, Stanley Fish, Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas LeMann, Louis Pojman, George Sher, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Richard Wasserstrom, Cornell West, and Steven Yates. Included also are important legal decisions bearing on affirmative action.

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À propos de l'auteur

Francis J. Beckwith (Anaheim Hills, CA) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Culture and Law at the Graduate and Law Schools of Trinity International University as well as Senior Research Fellow, Nevada Policy Research Institute. He is the co-editor of Are You Politically Correct? Todd Edwin Jones (Las Vegas, NV) is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada.

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Éditeur
G38-Prometheus
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1573921572
ISBN 13 
9781573921572
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
258
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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