Affirmative action and racial preference : a debate / Carl Cohen, James P. Sterba.
2003
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Title
Affirmative action and racial preference : a debate / Carl Cohen, James P. Sterba.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Call Number
KF4755.5 .A95 2003
ISBN
0195148940 (cloth)
0195148959 (pbk.)
0195148959 (pbk.)
Description
xv, 394 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52387902
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-370) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1 / Carl Cohen
Preface 2 / James P. Sterba
Cases
Sect. 1
Why Race Preference is Wrong and Bad / Carl Cohen
Prologue: Wrongness and Badness
3
1
Equality as a Moral Ideal
7
2
Affirmative Action
12
3
Race Preference: The Transformation of Affirmative Action
15
4
Race Preference Is Morally Wrong
23
5
Race Preference Is Against the Law
46
6
Race Preference Violates the Constitution
72
7
Race Preference Is Bad for the Minorities Preferred
109
8
Race Preference Is Bad for the Universities that Give Preference
130
9
Race Preference Is Bad for Society as a Whole
164
Epilogue: The Future of Race Preference
181
Sect. 2
Defending Affirmative Action, Defending Preferences / James P. Sterba
1
A Legal History of Affirmative Action in the United States
191
2
A Definition of Affirmative Action
199
3
A Defense of Outreach Affirmative Action
204
4
A Defense of Remedial Affirmative Action
206
5
Remedial Affirmative Action and the U.S. Supreme Court
213
6
Racial Discrimination v. Sexual Discrimination
226
7
A Better Standard of Proof for Remedial Affirmative Action
230
8
A Defense of Diversity Affirmative Action
241
9
Objections to Affirmative Action
251
10
Affirmative Action outside the United States
273
Conclusion
276
Sect. 3
Reply to James P. Sterba / Carl Cohen
Sect. 4
Reply to Carl Cohen / James P. Sterba
Sect. 5
Comments on the Supreme Court Decision / Carl Cohen James P. Sterba
Bibliography
365
Index
371