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The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History fromReconstruction to TodayBOOK DETAILAmazon Business : Save 25% on your first $200 of business supplies. Register a free business accountHardcover: 592 pages Publisher: Pantheon (January 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 1101870877ISBN-13: 978-1101870877 Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (Viewshipping rates and policies)Step By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionA rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 throughtoday’s tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis(“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—JeffreyRosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick,The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with theCivil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the NationalLabor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925,mandating that federal contractors take “affirmative action” to ensure that there be nodiscrimination by “race, creed, color, or national origin” down to today’s American society.Melvin Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and showsthat nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another instituted some formof affirmative action plansome successful, others not. Urofsky traces the evolution ofaffirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I andthe exodus that began when some six million African Americans moved northward between1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country’s history. He describes howHarry Truman, after becoming president in 1945, fought for Roosevelt’s Fair EmploymentPractice Act and, surprising everyone, appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President’sCommission on Civil Rights, as well as appointing the first black judge on a federal appeals courtin 1948 and, by executive order later that year, ordering full racial integration in the armedforces. In this important, ambitious, farreaching book, Urofsky writes about the affirmativeaction cases decided by the Supreme Court: cases that either upheld or struck down particularplans that affected both governmental and private entities. We come to fully understand thesocietal impact of affirmative action: how and why it has helped, and inflamed, people of allwalks of life; how it has evolved; and how, and why, it is still needed.
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