| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge Malaysian studies series ; v. 14 |
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Routledge Malaysian studies series ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
List of tables -- Notes on the contributors -- Acknowledgements and preface -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: affirmative action, horizontal inequalities, and equitable development -- Poverty, equality, and affirmative action in India -- Struggle for equality and justice: affirmative action in the United States of America -- Ethnicity, economy and affirmative action in Malaysia -- Coerced preferences: affirmative action and horizontal inequality in Fiji -- Affirmative action in South Africa: disadvantaging the many for the benefit of the few -- Power-sharing, communal contestation, and equality: affirmative action, identity, and conflict in Northern Ireland -- Appraising affirmative action in Brazil |
| Summary |
In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes came about and how they have been implemented, and examines their effectiveness. Throughout it explores how far affirmative action programmes reinforce ethnic identities and thereby contribute to division and conflict. The countries covered are India, the United States, South Africa, Norther |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Affirmative action programs.
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Ethnicity.
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Social conflict.
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Equality.
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ethnicity.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Affirmative action programs
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Equality
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Ethnicity
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Social conflict
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gomez, Edmund Terence.
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Premdas, Ralph R.
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| LC no. |
2012021780 |
| ISBN |
9781136157196 |
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1136157190 |
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9780203078839 |
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0203078837 |
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