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Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby
Stephen L. Carter
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Description for Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby
Paperback. A self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action confronts the problems spawned by our national obsession with racial measurement. Carter provides a thoughtful analysis of this controversial issue, arguing that affirmative action often allows the nation to escape inexpensively from its moral obligation to undo the legacy of slavery. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3; JKS; JPQB; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 237.
In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on racial preference written from personal experience, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Stephen L. Carter, Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action, does it.Using his own story of success and frustration as an affirmative action baby as a point of departure, Carter, ... Read more
In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on racial preference written from personal experience, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Stephen L. Carter, Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action, does it.Using his own story of success and frustration as an affirmative action baby as a point of departure, Carter, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465068692
SKU
V9780465068692
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99-1
About Stephen L. Carter
Stephen L. Carter is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University. Once a clerk to former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, today Carter is among the nation's leading experts on constitutional law.
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