Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle Over Equality After the Civil Rights Revolution

by Dennis Deslippe

Book Overview

A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher education and the workplace.

This story begins more than fifteen years before the 1978 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413701
• ISBN13: 9781421413709
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"