Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / / Dennis Deslippe.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Deslippe, Dennis.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Reconfiguring American political history
• Physical Description: xii, 282 p.

Table of Contents

• "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.