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Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution, Dennis Deslippe
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- Summary
- A lightening rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher education and the workplace. This story begins more than fifteen years before the 1978 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Partisans attacked affirmative action almost immediately after it first appeared in the 1960s. Liberals in the opposition movement played an especially significant role. While not completely against the initiative, liberal opponents strove for "soft" affirmative action (recruitment, financial aid, remedial programs) and against "hard" affirmative action (numerical goals, quotas). In the process of balancing ideals of race and gender equality with competing notions of colorblindness and meritocracy, they even borrowed the language of the civil rights era to make far-reaching claims about equality, justice, and citizenship in their anti-affirmative action rhetoric. Deslippe traces this conflict through compelling case studies of real people and real jobs. He asks what the introduction of affirmative action meant to the careers and livelihoods of Seattle steelworkers, New York asbestos handlers, St. Louis firemen, Detroit policemen, City University of New York academics, and admissions councilors at the University of Washington Law School. Through their experiences, Deslippe examines the diverse reactions to affirmative action, concluding that workers had legitimate grievances against its hiring and promotion practices. In studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
- Contents
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- "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
- Isbn
- 9781421404318
- Label
- Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution
- Title
- Protesting affirmative action
- Title remainder
- the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Dennis Deslippe
- Subject
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- "Multi-User"
- Affirmative action programs
- Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation
- Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Equality
- Equality -- United States -- History
- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Human Rights
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States -- History
- Race relations
- United States
- United States -- Race relations | History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A lightening rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher education and the workplace. This story begins more than fifteen years before the 1978 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Partisans attacked affirmative action almost immediately after it first appeared in the 1960s. Liberals in the opposition movement played an especially significant role. While not completely against the initiative, liberal opponents strove for "soft" affirmative action (recruitment, financial aid, remedial programs) and against "hard" affirmative action (numerical goals, quotas). In the process of balancing ideals of race and gender equality with competing notions of colorblindness and meritocracy, they even borrowed the language of the civil rights era to make far-reaching claims about equality, justice, and citizenship in their anti-affirmative action rhetoric. Deslippe traces this conflict through compelling case studies of real people and real jobs. He asks what the introduction of affirmative action meant to the careers and livelihoods of Seattle steelworkers, New York asbestos handlers, St. Louis firemen, Detroit policemen, City University of New York academics, and admissions councilors at the University of Washington Law School. Through their experiences, Deslippe examines the diverse reactions to affirmative action, concluding that workers had legitimate grievances against its hiring and promotion practices. In studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Deslippe, Dennis
- Dewey number
- 323.173
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5549.5.A34
- LC item number
- D427 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Reconfiguring American political history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Affirmative action programs
- Equality
- Race discrimination
- Affirmative action programs
- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Affirmative action programs
- Affirmative action programs
- Equality
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- United States
- Label
- Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution, Dennis Deslippe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "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
- Control code
- 823655159
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781421404318
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)823655159
- Label
- Protesting affirmative action : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution, Dennis Deslippe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "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
- Control code
- 823655159
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781421404318
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)823655159
Subject
- "Multi-User"
- Affirmative action programs
- Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation
- Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Equality
- Equality -- United States -- History
- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Human Rights
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States -- History
- Race relations
- United States
- United States -- Race relations | History
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