Affirmative Action and the Constitution
Author | : Gabriel Jackson Chin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Gabriel Jackson Chin |
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Gabriel Jackson Chin |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780815327424 |
A resource for teachers, scholars, and students, providing an extended introduction to the issue; reprints of significant cases and briefs; congressional testimony and other primary documents; and a selection of scholarly articles. The three volumes explore in turn affirmative action before constitutional law from 1964 to 1977, the apparent resolution of the issue by the US Supreme Court from 1978 to 1988, and judicial reaction from 1989 to 1997. Together they trace the major lines of intellectual and legal arguments originating outside the Supreme Court that have proved persuasive to future decision makers. The documents are reproduced from their original publication. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution |
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Total Pages | : 1432 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
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Author | : Lee C. Bollinger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
ISBN | : 0197685749 |
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. Since 1961, the issue of "affirmative action" has been a hotly contested legal and political issue. 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. Nonetheless, affirmative action policies in the United States continue to fall under assault. In A Legacy of Discrimination, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, two of America's leading constitutional scholars, trace the policy's history and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades. 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. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. 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. They demonstrate how and why affirmative action policies stand on firm legal ground and must remain protected. 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. 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.
Author | : Ronald J. Fiscus |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1996-01-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822317708 |
Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action. This is certainly no less true now as when Ronald J. Fiscus’s The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action was first published in 1992. The controversy has, perhaps, become more charged over the past few years. With this compelling and rigorously reasoned argument for a constitutional rationale of affirmative action, Fiscus clarifies the moral and legal ramifications of this complex subject and presents an important view in the context of the ongoing debate. Beginning with a distinction drawn between principles of compensatory and distributive justice, Fiscus argues that the former, although often the basis for judgments made in individual discrimination cases, cannot sufficiently justify broad programs of affirmative action. Only a theory of distributive justice, one that assumes minorities have a right to what they would have gained proportionally in a nonracist society, can persuasively provide that justification. On this basis, the author argues in favor of proportional racial quotas—and challenges the charge of “reverse discrimination” raised in protest in the name of the “innocent victims” of affirmative action—as an action necessary to approach the goals of fairness and equality. The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action focuses on Supreme Court affirmative action rulings from Bakke (1976) to Croson (1989) and includes an epilogue by editor Stephen L. Wasby that considers developments through 1995. General readers concerned with racial justice, affirmative action, and public policy, as well as legal specialists and constitutional scholars will find Fiscus’s argument passionate, balanced, and persuasive.
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
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Author | : Michel Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300055085 |
A comprehensive discussion of both the interpretive and critical issues central to the question of whether affirmative action programs are constitutional. Michel Rosenfeld presents a new theory that strongly defends the justice of affirmative action from the standpoint of both philosophy and constitutional law.
Author | : Donald Wilson Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Law |
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Jackson unravels the complex meanings of equal protection doctrine and its various interpretations over the last 134 years. After comparing equal protection laws in the U.S. to those in Canada and India and certain provisions of international law, he offers possible ways to resolve apparently intractable conflicts between individualism and affirmative action policies.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
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