Understanding affirmative action : politics, discrimination, and the search for justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kellough, J. Edward
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States. Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation > United States. Affirmative action programs > United States.

Table of Contents:

Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy
Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity
Affirmative action and preferential selection
Assessing the argument : a review of the case for and against affirmative action
The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints
Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action
Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action
Affirmative action in the twenty-first century.