Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: An Overview and SynthesisAffirmative action has been and continues to be the flashpoint of America s civil rights agenda. Yet while the affirmative action literature is voluminous, no comprehensive account of its major legal and public policy dimensions exists. Samuel and William M. Leiter examine the origin and growth of affirmative action, its impact on American society, its current state, and its future anti-discrimination role, if any. Informed by several different disciplines law, history, economics, sociology, political science, urban studies, and criminology the text combines the relevant legal materials with analysis and commentary from a variety of experts. This even-handed presentation of the subject of affirmative action is sure to be a valuable aid to those seeking to understand the issue s many complexities. |
Contents
Affirmative Action Programs Explicitly Mandated | 7 |
Chapter Two The Roots of Affirmative Action | 23 |
Chapter Three The Career of Affirmative | 39 |
Action in Employment | 45 |
The Midcareer of Employment Affirmative Action | 52 |
Hostilities Resume | 67 |
The Unresolved Issues of Affirmative Action in Employment | 79 |
Appendixes to Chapter Three | 87 |
The Unresolved Controversy over Nonremedial | 150 |
Chapter Six Affirmative Action and the Political | 173 |
Voting Rights Act and Its Amendments | 174 |
The RacialGerrymander Cases of the 1990s and | 185 |
Women and Electoral Politics | 195 |
Chapter Seven Affirmative Action and Fair Housing | 203 |
Integration Achievement and Maintenance | 212 |
Epilogue | 221 |
Affirmative Action Guidelines of | 93 |
Office of Federal Contract | 99 |
Chapter Four Affirmative Action and | 109 |
Browns Progeny | 117 |
The Meaning of Brown I | 124 |
The Twilight of Public School RacialEthnic Balancing | 134 |
The Ideological Clash | 232 |
Conclusion | 245 |
Selected Bibliography | 293 |
List and Index of Selected Cases | 303 |
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