Affirmative Action on Trial

by Melvin I. Urofsky

Book Overview

Affirmative action continues to be one of the most hotly contested issues in America. Volatile and divisive, the debates over its legitimacy have inspired a number of "reverse discrimination" suits in the federal courts. Like the landmark 1978 Bakke decision, most of these have focused on preferential treatment given racial minorities. In Johnson v. Santa Clara, however, the central issue was gender, not race discrimination, and the Supreme Court's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608303
• ISBN13: 9780700608300
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"