The Death of Affirmative Action? : : Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions / / J. Scott Carter, Cameron D. Lippard.

Affirmative action in US college admissions has inspired fierce debate as well as several US Supreme Court cases. In this significant study, leading US professors J. Scott Carter and Cameron D. Lippard provide an in-depth examination of the issue using sociological, policy and legal perspectives to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Sociology of Diversity
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 13 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Series Editor Preface
  • Introduction
  • Affirmative Action and Higher Education
  • Race, the Affirmative Action Debate, Education, and Past Court Cases
  • Who is Fighting the Fight?
  • Case Study 1: The Gratz and Grutter Supreme Court Cases against the University of Michigan
  • Case Study 2: The Fisher Supreme Court Cases against the University of Texas at Austin
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index