A legacy of discrimination : the essential constitutionality of affirmative action

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서명/저자사항	A legacy of discrimination: the essential constitutionality of affirmative action / Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone.
개인저자	Bollinger, Lee C., 1946- author. Stone, Geoffrey R., author.
형태사항	1 online resource (x, 178 pages)
기타형태 저록	Print version: Bollinger, Lee C. Legacy of discrimination : the essential constitutionality of affirmative action. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] 0197685749 9780197685747
ISBN	9780197685778 0197685773 9780197685761 0197685765
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-171) and index.
내용주기	The long journey to affirmative action -- Affirmative action : cases and policies -- The unfinished journey : the state of race in American society today -- The necessity of both a social and a judicial reckoning on race.
소장본주기	WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
요약	Since 1961, the issue of "affirmative action" has been a hotly contested legal and political issue. Intended to address our nation's often horrifying discrimination against Black Americans and other minorities, affirmative action has led over the past sixty years to far greater minority representation across a vast range of industries, government positions, and academic institutions. Nonetheless, affirmative action policies in the United States continue to fall under assault. In A Legacy of Discrimination, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, two of America's leading constitutional scholars, trace the policy's history and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades. They argue that in order to fully comprehend affirmative action's original intent and impact, we must re-acquaint ourselves with the era in which it arose, beginning with the most important Supreme Court decision of the 20th century, 1954's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Assessing this history, Bollinger and Stone introduce subsequent, and evolving, affirmative-action case law that had the intent and effect of constraining social, educational, and economic progress for Black people and other minority groups. They demonstrate how and why affirmative action policies stand on firm legal ground and must remain protected. Further, they explain why Americans must view affirmative action as a long-term moral commitment to secure justice, especially for Black Americans, after three and a half centuries of grave injustice that violates the most essential aspirations of our nation. A timely and robust overview of the history of our nation's historical and continuing racial discrimination and of the advent of affirmative action as a critical means to address this history, this book will serve as a powerful defense of a policy that has accomplished more than most people realize in making America a fairer and more inclusive country.
주제명 (통일서명)	Constitution (United States) --fast
주제명(지명)	United States. --fast
일반주제명	Affirmative action programs --United States --History. Affirmative action programs --Law and legislation --United States. Affirmative action programs. Affirmative action programs --Law and legislation.
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