affirmative action programs

Collection of twenty-nine essays in which politicians, legal experts, businesspeople, and researchers express their personal views on affirmative action, showing the wide range of opinions that exist about the controversial issue.

America's leading commentators in government, business, and academia identify important ambiguities in the complex issue over race and gender equality.

Considers opposing opinions on such issues as how serious discrimination is in its various forms, whether reverse discrimination exists, and how effective affirmative action and other remedies are.

A collection of four hundred documents which trace the history and development of affirmative action, explore how race, gender, and disability apply to affirmative action, and provide arguments for and against affirmative action.

A collection of eleven complementary essays written alternately by the African-American and Japanese-American authors, in which they discuss their own backgrounds and argue that affirmative action is the best way to bring about an end to racial, gender, and economic bias in America.

Examines the social, political, and economic controversies surrounding Civil Rights in America including discrimination against African and Arab Americans, Hispanics, gays and lesbians and discusses issues such as racial profiling, affirmative action, and anti-terrorist measures.

Draws on the author's personal experiences from other countries and his observations and studies concerning America looking at the current state of race relations in this country and illuminates options for a race-neutral, discrimination free society to develop and flourish.

Examines the 1973 Supreme Court case in which Alan Bakke charged the University of California with discrimination after he was turned down by the university's medical school, which practiced affirmative action; discusses related court cases and laws; and includes a moot court exercise.

Describes the movement known as affirmative action which seeks to prevent discrimination of human rights on the basis of sex or race. Cites historical cases of discrimination and their impact on affirmative action today.