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Author Deslippe, Dennis.

Title Protesting affirmative action [electronic resource] : the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution / Dennis Deslippe.

Imprint Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

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Description xii, 282 p.
Series Reconfiguring American political history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74 -- "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72 -- "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education -- Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s -- "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and -- Color-blindness in the courtroom -- "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s -- "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke -- Conclusion.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History.
Equality -- United States -- History.
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781421403588 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421403587 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421404318 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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