The affirmative action debate

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Cahn Steven M.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xiv, 233 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 041593866X (HB)
0415938678 (PB)
Index Number: F249
CLC: F249.712
Call Number: F249.712/A256/2nd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
Discrimination and morally relevant characteristics / James W. Nickel -- Inverse discrimination / J.L. Cowan -- Reparations to wronged groups / Michael D. Bayles -- Reverse discrimination and compensatory justice / Paul W. Taylor -- Reverse discrimination / William A. Nunn III -- Should reparations be to individuals or to groups? / James W. Nickel -- Reparations to individuals or groups? / Alan H. Goldman -- What's wrong with discrimination? / Paul Woodruff -- Preferential hiring / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Preferential hiring : a reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson / Robert Simon --Justifying reverse discrimination in employment / George Sher -- Preferential hiring and compensation / Robert K. Fullinwider -- Compensatory justice : the question of costs / Robert Amdur -- Who are equals? / Carl Cohen -- Bakke's case : are quotas unfair? / Ronald Dworkin -- What did Bakke really decide? / Ronald Dworkin -- Equality, diversity, and good faith / Carl Cohen -- In defense of affirmative action / Barbara R. Bergmann -- The role model argument and faculty diversity / Anita L. Allen -- Proportional representation of women and minorities / Celia Wolf-Devine -- The meaning of "merit" / William G. Bowen and Derek Bok -- Does your "merit" depend upon your race? A rejoinder to Bowen and Bok / Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom -- Diversity / George Sher -- In favor of affirmative action / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Reverse discrimination / Sidney Hook.