Overview

"In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story relates what happened from the vantage point of Toward A Fair Michigan (TAFM), a nonprofit organization that provided a civic forum for the discussion of preferences. The book offers a timely ""inside look"" into how TAFM fostered dialogue by emphasizing education over indoctrination, reason over rhetoric, and civil debate over protest. Ending Racial Preferences opens with a review of the campaigns for and against similar initiatives in California, Florida, Washington, and the city of Houston. The book then delivers an in-depth historical account of the MCRI–from its inception in 2003 through the first year following its passage in 2006. Readers are invited to decide for themselves whether affirmative action preferences are good for America. Carol M. Allen reproduces the remarks delivered at a TAFM debate, along with a compilation of pro and con responses by 14 experts to 50 questions about preferences. This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of public policy and state politics."

Full Product Details

Author:   Carol M. Allen ,  William B. Allen ,  Barbara J. Grutter
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9780739124338

ISBN 10:   0739124331
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   19 June 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 1 What Came Before Chapter 6 2 Creating a Fair Michigan, Part I: The Ballot Petition Process Chapter 7 3 Creating a Fair Michigan, Part II: The Election Campaigns Chapter 8 4 The Debates: A Simple Dialogue Chapter 9 5 ""Ask the Experts"": Questions from the Debates Chapter 10 6 What Followed? Chapter 11 7 Moving from Diversity to Inclusion: The Way Forward Chapter 12 Appendix I: Debates Sponsored by Toward A Fair Michigan Chapter 13 Appendix II: Audience Feedback from the TAFM Debates Chapter 14 Appendix III: Brief of Amicus Curiae Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 About the Author and Contributor"

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Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story tells how determined citizens mobilized to end racial preferences despite the opposition of every civic and political institution in the state. The success of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative vindicates Allen 's belief in the ability of democratic institutions to withstand the pressures of modern interest group politics.--Terence J. Pell

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Carol M. Allen is a research specialist at Michigan State University.

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