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Author:   Dennis Deslippe (Associate Professor, Franklin & Marshall College)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781421403588

ISBN 10:   1421403587
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   26 April 2012
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Initialisms Introduction 1. ""The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone"": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960–1974 2. ""This Strange Madness"": The Origins of Opposition to Higher Education Affirmative Action, 1968–1972 3. ""This Issue Is Getting Hotter"": The Struggle over Affirmative Action Policy in the Early 1970s 4. ""Treat Him as a Decent American!"": DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Colorblindness in the Courtroom 5. ""Do Whites Have Rights?"": White Detroit Policemen and the ""Reverse Discrimination"" Protests of the 1970s 6. ""The Fight for True Nondiscrimination"": The Politics of Anti–Affirmative Action in the 1970s Conclusion Notes Essay on Sources Index"

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A welcome examination of affirmative action opposition in the often-overlooked period before Bakke. Choice 2012 A valuable discussion that clearly adds to the scholarship on this crucial subject. -- Kevin Yuill Journal of American History 2013

A welcome examination of affirmative action opposition in the often-overlooked period before Bakke. Choice 2012

Highly recommended. Choice 2012

A welcome examination of affirmative action opposition in the often-overlooked period before Bakke. * Choice * Deslippe's treatment of labor's resistance in particular is balanced, detailed, and nuanced, and he includes an excellent chapter on the precursor of Bakke, DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)... A valuable discussion that clearly adds to the scholarship on this crucial subject. -- Kevin Yuill * Journal of American History * Ambitious and timely... The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a 'reverse populism' that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry * Labor Studies Journal * It is difficult to think of a more timely historical topic: persistent ambivalence about affirmative action again collides with an economic downturn as an increasingly conservative Supreme Court considers landmark cases that may resolve some legal questions but are unlikely to end the almost half-century-old moral and political debate. -- Serena Mayeri * Journal of American Studies * The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a reverse populism that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry * Labor Studies Journal * In uncovering the murky and complex pre-history of contemporary affirmative action debates, Deslippe shows how changing social and economic circumstances shaped diverse understandings of the meaning of race, sex, opportunity, and disadvantage. -- Katherine Turk * American Studies *

Author Information

Dennis Deslippe is an associate professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College and author of Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80.

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