Author: June Jorda
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: acts, affirmative
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-20
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0385492251
ISBN-13: 9780385492256

Activist, poet, essayist, and professor June Jordan collects some of her most provocative essays from the 1990s in Affirmative Acts, a book that, like Civil Wars and Technical Difficulties, showcases her ability to appeal to a wide range of readers, covering topics like politics, race relations, the intersections between activism and passion, women’s health care, and affirmative-action debates. Jordan articulates complex and uncompromising points of view without alienating her readers in a swirl of jargon and tired political rhetoric. In the title essay, she writes: "I’m saying tha

Author: Steven M. Cahn
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: debates, action, affirmative
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-06-28
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0415938678
ISBN-13: 9780415938679

Affirmative action has been a divisive issue in the United States for close to thirty years. The controversy is alive today and the debate has intensified. This newly updated, highly readable collection provides an essential guide to the full range of arguments surrounding contemporary discussion of affirmative action making it a useful tool for students and general readers alike. Comprising nearly three decades of writing on the subject, the book follows the debate from early foundational articles to the most up-to-date opinions, and covers all the important stops in between.

Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: obligation, affirmative, liberalism
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-11-26
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0195115287
ISBN-13: 9780195115284

In this compelling book, Patricia Smith considers what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be in order to both accomodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice and to account for institutions central to liberal democratic society. Smith demonstrates that taking these institutions seriously requires rejecting atomistic individualism for a moderate view of social obligation.

Author: Steven M. Cahn
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: debate, action, affirmative
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1995-11-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0415914930
ISBN-13: 9780415914932

This collection of philosophical papers traces the main lines of argument in the debate over the moral justification of affirmative action. The essays, which comprise more than two decades of writing on the subject, are highly readable and present the strongest contributions on boths sides of this highly charged issue. Contributors: Steven M. Cahn, James W. Nickel, J. L. Cowan, Paul W. Taylor, Michael D. Bayles, William A. Nunn III, Alan H. Goldman, Paul Woodruff, Robert A. Shiver, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Simon, George Sher, Robert Amdur, Robert K. Fullinwider, Bernard R. Boxhill, Lisa H

Author: George Curry
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: debate, action, affirmative
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-06-20
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 020147963X
ISBN-13: 9780201479638

The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such questions as, How did affirmative-action policies come to be? Who benefits most from them, and who suffers? How do these programs work in hiring, contracting, college admissions, and other fields? What will recent Supreme Court rulings and legislative initiatives mean? And, most fundamentally, does any race-conscious remedy simply perpetuate disc

Author: Barbara R. Bergmann
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: action, affirmative, defense
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-03-20
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0465098347
ISBN-13: 9780465098347

Author: Bruce P. Lapenson
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: merit, meanings, action, affirmative
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2009-05-16
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0761843477
ISBN-13: 9780761843474

The public defenses of affirmative action have not convinced the majority of Americans that the policy is necessary and just. The notion that merit and qualifications for academic places and jobs can be judged solely by test scores and grades is seriously called into question by the numerous studies analyzed in this book.