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Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate

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Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate - Cohen, Carl, Professor, and Sterba, James P
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Racial preferences are among the most contentious issues in our society, touching on fundamental questions of fairness and the proper role of racial categories in government action. In this volume, two contemporary philosophers, in a lively debate, lay out the arguments on each side. Carl Cohen, a key figure in the University of Michigan Supreme Court cases, argues that racial preferences are morally wrong--forbidden by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and explicitly banned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. James P. ...

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Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195148954

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