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United States - Ethnic & Race Relations, Civil Rights - United States, Social Classes - General & Miscellaneous, Labor Studies - General & Miscellaneous
Race versus Class traces the evolution of affirmative action policies and explores the issues surrounding the current debate. In addition to providing fundamental facts, the book presents original insights and recommendations for salvaging the policy. Included among the essays are case studies of race-exclusive scholarships, housing policies, and the Head Start program. The book also includes a discussion of the difficulty of measuring public opinion on affirmative action, and of how existing methods might be improved. Sound public policy recommendations emerge from the book's racially diverse group of contributors. Contents: Affirmative Action Revisisted, Carol M. Swain; Racial Classifications, April Chou; Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action: Paradox or Paradigm?, Frederick Vars; Affirmative Action and Public Opinion Polls, Ricshawn Adkins; Philosophical Perspectives, Justin McCrary; Race-Exclusive Scholarships for Undergraduate Education, Jessica Malman; Fresh Start: Redefining Affirmative Action to Include Socioeconomic Class, Jonathon Goldman; Residential Segregation, Racial Discrimination, and the Road to Reform, Cindy Kam; The Head Start Program: Constructive Affirmative Action, Priya Rajan; Index.
Synopsis
Race versus Class traces the evolution of affirmative action policies and explores the issues surrounding the current debate. In addition to providing fundamental facts, the book presents original insights and recommendations for salvaging the policy.
About the Author, Carol M. Swain
Carol M. Swain is Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
...superbly utilizes social research and analyses to illuminate the public policy debate over one of our thorniest issues, affirmative action. We are indebted to Carol Swain and her contributing authors for producing a work that sheds light and clarity on a subject that too often generates only heat.
Kerry L. Haynie
Carol Swain has assembled a collection of interesting, insightful, and thought provoking essays on one of the most contentious political questions of the last two decades. The essays provide crisp analysis and offer a new foundation on which future policy options might be built. Those interested in contemporary race relations and their impact on public policy should definitely read this book.
