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  The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America (Paperback) By (author) John David Skrentny

  

  

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  Short Description for The Ironies of Affirmative ActionAnalyzing both the resistance from the Right and the support from the Left, this study brings to light the moral culture that has shaped the affirmative action debate, allowing for starkly different policies for different citizens.
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  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 11 April 1996
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages
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  • Categories: Social Discrimination | Political Science & Theory | Constitutional & Administrative Law | Employment & Labour Law
  • ISBN 13: 9780226761787 ISBN 10: 0226761789

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• Analyzing both the resistance from the Right and the support from the Left, Skrentny brings to light the moral culture that has shaped the affirmative action debate, allowing for starkly different policies for different citizens. He also shows, through an analysis of historical documents and court rulings, the complex and intriguing political circumstances which gave rise to these controversial policies. By exploring the mystery of how it took less than five years for a colour-blind policy to give way to one that explicitly took race into account, Skrentny uncovers and explains surprising ironies: that affirmative action was largely created by white males and initially championed during the Nixon administration; that many civil rights leaders at first avoided advocacy of racial preferences; and that though originally a political taboo, almost no one resisted affirmative action.