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A Conflict of Principles: The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Carl Cohen
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Description for A Conflict of Principles: The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Hardcover. A personal and fair-minded account of the principles and politics at play in the four decades long battle over affirmative action in higher education. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNMN; JPVH1; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."" So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination--calling it ""affirmative action""--he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in ... Read more
No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."" So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination--calling it ""affirmative action""--he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619962
SKU
V9780700619962
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About Carl Cohen
Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, USA and the author of Affirmative Action and Racial Preference.
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