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Protesting affirmative action :

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1421404311

(Number (ISBN

9781421404318

Erroneous ISBN

1421403587

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1421413701

Erroneous ISBN

9781421403588

Erroneous ISBN

9781421413709

Title Proper

Protesting affirmative action :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution /

First Statement of Responsibility

Dennis Deslippe.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore, Md. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)

Series Title

Reconfiguring American political history

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74 -- "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72 -- "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education -- Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s -- "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and -- Color-blindness in the courtroom -- "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s -- "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke -- Conclusion.

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A lightening 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 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Partisans attacked affirmative action almost immediately after it first appeared in the 1960s. Liberals in the opposition movement played an especially significant role. While not completely against the initiative, liberal opponents strove for "soft" affirmative action (recruitment, financial aid, remedial programs) and against "hard" affirmative action (numerical goals, quotas). In the process of balancing ideals of race and gender equality with competing notions of colorblindness and meritocracy, they even borrowed the language of the civil rights era to make far-reaching claims about equality, justice, and citizenship in their anti-affirmative action rhetoric. Deslippe traces this conflict through compelling case studies of real people and real jobs. He asks what the introduction of affirmative action meant to the careers and livelihoods of Seattle steelworkers, New York asbestos handlers, St. Louis firemen, Detroit policemen, City University of New York academics, and admissions councilors at the University of Washington Law School. Through their experiences, Deslippe examines the diverse reactions to affirmative action, concluding that workers had legitimate grievances against its hiring and promotion practices. In studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today.

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PROJMUSE

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Title

Protesting affirmative action.

Affirmative action programs-- Law and legislation-- United States.

Affirmative action programs-- United States-- History.

Equality-- United States-- History.

Race discrimination-- United States-- History.

Affirmative action programs-- Law and legislation.

Affirmative action programs.

Equality.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Civil Rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Human Rights.

Race discrimination.

Race relations.

United States, Race relations, History.

United States.

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POL-- 035010

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Deslippe, Dennis.

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20200822182325.0

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[Book]

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