Affirmative Action and the Stalled Quest for Black Progress

by Robert D. Holsworth and W. Avon Drake

Book Overview

W. Avon Drake and Robert D. Holsworth focus on the landmark case of Richmond v. Croson. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled against the city of Richmond's set-aside program requiring that thirty percent of the money in municipal construction contracts go to minority-owned firms. The authors describe the politics that gave rise to the set-aside program, investigate its actual operation, explore its effects, and detail responses to it in both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065395
• ISBN13: 9780252065392
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"