The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How Defunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection

by Ellen Messer-Davidow

Book Overview

In The Making of Reverse Discrimination Ellen Messer-Davidow offers a fresh and incisive analysis of the legal-judicial discourse of DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), the first two cases challenging race-conscious admissions to professional schools to reach the US Supreme Court. While the voluminous literature on DeFunis and Bakke has focused on the Supreme Court's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700632212
• ISBN13: 9780700632213
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"