Protesting affirmative action [electronic resource] : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / Dennis Deslippe.
Material type: TextSeries: Reconfiguring American political historyPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: xii, 282 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 323.173 23
- HF5549.5.A34 D427 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.