Affirmative action for the future /

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Author / Creator:Sterba, James P.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Description:x, 131 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Affirmative action programs in education -- United States.
Affirmative action programs.
Affirmative action programs in education.
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7794291
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ISBN:9780801446078 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801446074 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801475917 (pbk.:alk.paper)
0801475910 (pbk.:alk.paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sterba (philosophy, Univ. of Notre Dame) has written a concise, timely analysis of affirmative action. His book nicely summarizes the continuing existence of discrimination based on race and sex, and provides a very useful legal history of race and sex-based affirmative action. Perhaps the book's biggest contribution is Sterba's expanded definition of affirmative action as a policy of "favoring qualified women, minority, or economically disadvantaged candidates over qualified men, nonminority, or economically advantaged candidates respectively." The author's expanded definition also specifies several immediate and ultimate goals of affirmative action policies. Sterba then systematically defends outreach, remedial, and diversity affirmative action, and addresses objections to both remedial and diversity affirmative action. Overall, much of what Sterba presents is not necessarily new, but his expanded definition of affirmative action, one he suggests that both opponents and supporters could agree on, is a welcome addition to this continuing debate. Further, this book could easily be assigned in a wide variety of undergraduate courses. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. N. Kraus University of Wisconsin--River Falls

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