Title Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy : an Overview and Synthesis

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (499 pages) Contents Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations -- 1. Introduction -- Introduction to Second Edition -- Introduction to First Edition, 2002 -- 2. The Roots of Affirmative Action; The Women�s Movement; and Affirmative Action�s Group Coverage -- Reconstruction and the Origins of Affirmative Action -- White Supremacy and the Origins of Disparate Impact -- The Women�s Movement: The First and Second “Waves� -- Which Groups Should Be Eligible for Affirmative Action Benefits? Immigration and Affirmative Action3. The Career of Affirmative Action in Employment -- Prologue -- Title VII and Employment Discrimination -- The Supreme Court and the Quarrel over Employment Affirmative Action, 1970�1989 -- Hostilities Continue -- The Unresolved Issues of Affirmative Action in Employment -- Conclusion: Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action -- 4. Affirmative Action and the Primary and Secondary Schools -- Prologue -- The Epochal Brown Ruling -- The Meaning of Brown I -- Brown�s Progeny Academic Scholarship on School Integration and Education Deprivation: A Variety of ViewsEthnocentrism, Affirmative Action, and Bilingual Education -- The Twilight of School Racial/Ethnic Balancing, and the Continuing Quest for Reform -- 5. Affirmative Action in Higher Education -- Prologue -- Affirmative Action and Student Admissions:The Scholarly Debate -- Strict Scrutiny, Diversity, and University Admissions:The Hopwood, Grutter, and Gratz Cases -- Diversity on Campus Continued The Formerly De Jure Segregated Universities:The Historically Black Colleges and theTraditionally White InstitutionsGender Discrimination and Education -- 6. Affirmative Action and the Political Representation of Minorities -- Prologue -- The 1965 Voting Rights Act and Its Amendments -- The “Racial Gerrymander� Cases of the 1990s and theConstitutional Requirements of the Equal Protection Clause -- Women and Electoral Politics -- Epilogue -- 7. Affirmative Action and Fair Housing -- Prologue -- Housing Segregation Federal Antidiscrimination Law Affecting Housing:The 1968 Fair Housing ActAffirmative Action and Residential Integration -- Epilogue -- 8. Constitutional Underclasses and Affirmative Action: The Disabled, Older Workers, Homosexuals -- Prologue -- The Disability/Antidiscrimination Difference Canon -- The ADA and Its Predecessors -- The Courts and the ADA -- The Supreme Court and Age Discrimination -- The Supreme Court and Homosexuals -- Epilogue: The Constitutional Underclasses and the Critical Issues -- 9. Facing Affirmative Action�s Future -- Prologue Notes ""The Supreme Court�s Civil Rights Hierarchy"" Print version record Subject Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation. Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation. Discrimination -- Law and legislation. United States. Form Electronic book Author Leiter, Samuel ISBN 9781438435152 1438435150

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