Collision course : the strange convergence of affirmative action and immigration policy in America

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Collision course : the strange convergence of affirmative action and immigration policy in America

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the strange convergence of affirmative action and immigration policy in America

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Hugh Davis Graham

Language

eng

Summary

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform applauded by the majority of Americans. But today, as Hugh Graham shows in Collision Course, affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct conflict for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs. How did two such well-intended laws come to loggerheads? Graham argues that a sea change occurred in American political life in the late 1960s, when a system of split governme

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325.73

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index present

LC call number

JV6483

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.G73 2002eb

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non fiction

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