Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy

by Nathan Glazer

Book Overview

Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United States; evaluates public policies in the areas of employment, education, and housing; and questions the judgment and wisdom of their underlying premises--their focus on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007301
• ISBN13: 9780674007307
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"