Product Description: Provides a comprehensive and even-handed overview of the very contentious subject of affirmative action.

In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a campaign to guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield results for our children.” The response was passionate, and the meeting launched a movement.   This book—emerging directly from that effort—reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is. Essays include   ·  Robert Moses’s historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education   ·  Ernesto Cortés’s view from decades of work organizing Latino communities in Texas   ·  Charles Payne’s interview with students from the Baltimore Algebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on their district   ·  Legal scholar Imani Perry’s nuanced analysis of the prospects of making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by the Constitution   ·  Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, and by teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples of what quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guide practice in the meantime 

Product Description: At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open...read more

THE #1 AAP REFERENCE FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS! How to write your plan narrative, prepare your statistical reports and manage a compliance review, all in one concise reference book. The latest in 2006 federal regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor. If you are a vendor or supplier to the government, you may be required to have a written Affirmative Action Program. If you fit into any of these categories, you need the new seventh edition of Secrets of Affirmative Action Compliance: 50 employees and $50,000 or more in total contracts; Any bank, regardless of employee number, with $1.00 in the federal reserve system; Any employer, regardless of employee number, which is a transfer agent for U.S. Savings Bonds. (Credit Unions, often.) Any construction contractor with federally assisted construction contracts in excess of $10,000. Federal regulations have changed! If your current AAP doesn't address these new requirements, you will not be in compliance. (41 C.F.R. 60 changes effective 2/06/2006) You need ... Secrets of Affirmative Action Compliance. Easy to use book with numerous forms and checklists. Gives you federal regulation requirements and then shows you how to meet them. It couldn't be simpler...or less expensive. Save thousands of dollars by preparing your own AAP documents. Save thousands of dollars by preparing your own 16-step construction contract affirmative action specifications. Order your copy today! If your organization has chosen to do business with federal, state or local governments, this book is going to be invaluable to you. Most government contractors (vendors and suppliers) are required to have a written Affirmative Action Program for minorities and women. Two additional written AAP documents are required for Disabled and for Veterans. This book shows you how to meet all three requirements in one document. Use the checklists to conduct your own internal compliance review so you can detect problems before they are pointed out by compliance officials. Use the diagrams, flow charts and forms to both understand and implement your own affirmative action programs as you determine they are necessary. Help your organization meet legal requirements. 2006 Regulatory Impact is Staggering! New regulations specify the definition of "Job Applicant." While the EEOC and OFCCP definitions don't agree (as yet), contractors are obliged to abide by the OFCCP version. And, the record keeping requirements are staggering in their impact on contractor organizations. It's all here, in our latest edition of the book contractors have come to rely on for its accuracy and common sense suggestions for meeting federal requirements. Get your copy today! Just add Census data.

Product Description: Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and the diversity argument...read more

Product Description: For some time, the United States has been engaged in a national debate over affirmative action policy. A policy that began with the idea of creating a level playing field for minorities has sparked controversy in the workplace, in higher education, and elsewhere...read more

Describes the Supreme Court case of the Univeristy of California Regents v. Bakke, and details the claims made by both sides as well as the outcome of the trial, including the impact the trial has had on affirmative action programs.

Product Description: 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. Now two contemporary philosophers, in a lively debate, lay out the arguments on each side...read more

Product Description: 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. Now two contemporary philosophers, in a lively debate, lay out the arguments on each side...read more

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Presents a history of the controversial topic, a chronology of key events, biographies of relevant individuals, a listing of organizations and agencies, and an annotated bibliography of sources. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Affirmative action" can generally be described as preferential treatment for minorities and women in jobs, educational opportunities, and receipt of other benefits. However, its origin and meaning remain relatively obscure. This study is designed to provide clarity and to strengthen the position of affirmative action amidst the controversy that surrounds it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This fascinating book examines the issue of affirmative action and how it has been affected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and various Supreme Court decisions. Utilizing data from the Personnel Boards of seven southern states, Ronnie Tucker assesses the impact of legal decisions on recruiting, hiring, and promoting African Americans in state government...read more

Product Description: In Affirmative Action: A Reference Handbook, recent events such as the end of affirmative action in California are examined along with their implications for employees and employers, public contracting, and education. The coverage details the roles of the women's and civil rights movements in shaping affirmative action policies, analyzes major laws and court cases, and profiles key proponents and critics...read more

Product Description: In the context of the evolution of affirmative action at the national and state levels, this study offers an empirical account of the citizens' movement in California that successfully resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment to abolish such preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Can we trust our courts to apply the law to the facts in controversial cases involving race and to rule on the law, putting personal feelings and political agendas aside? This book is not going to sit well with those who support managed diversity...read more

Product Description: This new academic study provides an interestinginsight into the German and American, as well as international and European Community rules which encourage and limit affirmative action taken by States. This comparison of the legal orders of the United States and Germany reveals an intriguing paradox...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Affirmative action may be the most controversial public issue of the last decades of the twentieth-century. This three-volume series collects important primary materials including actual affirmative action programs, Supreme Court cases and briefs, and influential scholarly analysis on both sides of the question, offering clear and understandable explanations of a complex area of law, without sacrificing the sophisticated, sometimes challenging views of the most important thinkers and decision makers in the area...read more

Product Description: There seems to be fewer policy issues in Washington and around America which cause more arguments than affirmative action. Both sides in this debate are deeply entrenched and show little, if any, signs of movement. Is it a catalyst or an albatross? In this book, the author has gathered articles concerning the historical background of the legislation and its implementation, analyses of its effects and proposals for revision of various provisions of the law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that affirmative action laws are essential to American social justice and racial equality

Contains fifteen essays on affirmative action (view table of contents)