First/first in mildly edgeworn DJ with some darkening to edges and damp stained bottom edge surrounding base of spine. Reddish brown ink transfer from cloth exposure to moisture. Brick colored cloth covered boards gold & black lettering along spine. Heavy tanning to end pages front and rear. Previous owner's name handwritten in ink front pastedown. Textblock top edge tinted dark grey. Dust stained fore-edge. Complete number line. [248 pages].

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Affirmative Discrimination

Publisher

Basic Books February 1976

Publication Date

1976

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465020763

ISBN 13

9780465020768

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition.

Printing

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Synopsis

Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United States; evaluates public policies in the areas of employment, education, and housing; and questions the judgment and wisdom of their underlying premises� their focus on group rights, rather than individual rights. Such policies, he argues, are ineffective, unnecessary, and politically destructive of harmonious relations among the races.

Updated with a long, new introduction by the author, Affirmative Discrimination will enable citizens as well as scholars to better understand and evaluate public policies for achieving social justice in a multiethnic society.

About the Author

Nathan Glazer is Professor of Education and Sociology, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

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