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- catalog contributor b10411022.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Julian Bond -- Ch. 1. Toward a Theory of Affirmative Action. The Political and Economic Climate for the Backlash Against Present Race- and Gender-based Policy. What Is Affirmative Action? A Brief History of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action and Higher Education. Recent Attacks on Affirmative Action. The Need for a Theory of Affirmative Action. A Sketch of the Central Argument -- Ch. 2. Markets, Measurement, and Affirmative Action. The Market as a Fair Selector -- Problems with the Theory. The Problem with the Empirical Evidence: Market Efficiency and Educational Selection. Affirmative Action and Poverty -- Ch. 3. A Case for a Backward-looking Gender- and Race-based Policy. The Problem: Race-based or Need-based Affirmative Action? Conservative and Liberal Varieties of Need-based Affirmative Action. Some Differences Between the Two Approaches to Affirmative Action. The Preliminary Case for Race- and Gender-based Affirmative Action. Summary -- Ch. 4. Group Rights and Historical Obligations. Defining Group Rights. Why Affirmative Action Is Confused with a Group Right: The Strategy of Simultaneity. Do Group-based Rights Violate Other People's Individual Rights? Affirmative Action as Addressing Historical Debt. To Whom Is the Debt Owed? A Return to the Question of Group Rights. Summary -- Ch. 5. Need, Diversity, and Group Variation. A Review of the Argument. Returning to the Role of Need and Diversity. Affirmative Action Should Work Differently for Different Groups. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 97 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0807736988 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0807736996 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Teachers College Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "379.2/6/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs United States.".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs in education United States.".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in education United States Prevention.".
- catalog subject "Educational equalization United States.".
- catalog subject "LC212.2 .F45 1998".
- catalog subject "Minorities Education United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Julian Bond -- Ch. 1. Toward a Theory of Affirmative Action. The Political and Economic Climate for the Backlash Against Present Race- and Gender-based Policy. What Is Affirmative Action? A Brief History of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action and Higher Education. Recent Attacks on Affirmative Action. The Need for a Theory of Affirmative Action. A Sketch of the Central Argument -- Ch. 2. Markets, Measurement, and Affirmative Action. The Market as a Fair Selector -- Problems with the Theory. The Problem with the Empirical Evidence: Market Efficiency and Educational Selection. Affirmative Action and Poverty -- Ch. 3. A Case for a Backward-looking Gender- and Race-based Policy. The Problem: Race-based or Need-based Affirmative Action? Conservative and Liberal Varieties of Need-based Affirmative Action. Some Differences Between the Two Approaches to Affirmative Action. The Preliminary Case for Race- and Gender-based Affirmative Action. Summary -- Ch. 4. Group Rights and Historical Obligations. Defining Group Rights. Why Affirmative Action Is Confused with a Group Right: The Strategy of Simultaneity. Do Group-based Rights Violate Other People's Individual Rights? Affirmative Action as Addressing Historical Debt. To Whom Is the Debt Owed? A Return to the Question of Group Rights. Summary -- Ch. 5. Need, Diversity, and Group Variation. A Review of the Argument. Returning to the Role of Need and Diversity. Affirmative Action Should Work Differently for Different Groups. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "On higher ground : education and the case for affirmative action / Walter Feinberg ; foreword by Julian Bond.".
- catalog type "text".