A timely defense of Affirmative Action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
A timely and robust overview of the history of our nation\'s historical and continuing racial discrimination and of the advent of Affirmative Action as a critical means to address this history, this book will serve as a powerful defense of a policy that has accomplished more than most people realize in making America a fairer and more inclusive country..
Further, they explain why Americans must view Affirmative Action as a long-term moral commitment to secure justice, especially for Black Americans, after three and a half centuries of grave injustice that violates the most Essential aspirations of our nation.
They demonstrate how and why Affirmative Action policies stand on firm legal ground and must remain protected.
Assessing this history, Bollinger and Stone introduce subsequent, and evolving, affirmative-Action case law that had the intent and effect of constraining social, educational, and economic progress for Black people and other minority groups.
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas .
They argue that in order to fully comprehend Affirmative action\'s original intent and impact, we must re-acquaint ourselves with the era in which it arose, beginning with the most important Supreme Court decision of the 20th century, 1954\'s Brown v.
Stone, two of America\'s leading constitutional scholars, trace the policy\'s history and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades.
Bollinger and Geoffrey R.
In A Legacy of Discrimination , Lee C.
Nonetheless, Affirmative Action policies in the United States continue to fall under assault.
Intended to address our nation\'s often horrifying discrimination against Black Americans and other minorities, Affirmative Action has led over the past sixty years to far greater minority representation across a vast range of industries, government positions, and academic institutions.
Since 1961, the issue of Affirmative Action has been a hotly contested legal and political issue.
A timely defense of Affirmative Action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective
