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Author Perry, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann), 1956-

Title The Michigan affirmative action cases / Barbara A. Perry.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  344.0798 P429m 2007    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  344.0798 PER 2007    ---  Available
Description xiv, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Landmark law cases & American society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.
Contents An American dilemma : racial politics in the pre-Bakke era -- Bakke to the future : affirmative action precedents -- Admission denied : the University of Michigan rejects Jennifer Gratz and Barbara Grutter -- Can we sue? : Gratz and Grutter go to court -- All the way to the Supreme Court : briefs for the justices -- Jim Crow, hell no! : oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court -- Diversity is a compelling state interest : Justice Sandra Day O'Connor upholds affirmative action -- Affirmative reaction : in the wake of Gratz and Grutter.
Subject Grutter, Barbara -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Gratz, Jennifer -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Bollinger, Lee C., 1946- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
University of Michigan -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Affirmative action programs in education -- Law and legislation.
Universities and colleges -- Admission -- Law and legislation -- Michgian.
ISBN 9780700615483 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700615482 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700615490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700615490 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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