The Death of Affirmative Action?: Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions

ISBN-13: 9781529201116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 234 str.

Scott Carter; Cameron Lippard

Opis

Can affirmative action in US college admissions survive mounting threats? This judicious review, part of the Sociology of Diversity series, considers the question using up-to-date sociological, policy and legal perspectives to explain both sides of the fierce debate over affirmative action in the context of prominent Supreme Court cases.

Spis treści

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/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