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The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
By Urofsky, Melvin I.
- ISBN
- 9781101870877
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Reviewed on January 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
Urofsky (emeritus, history, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.; Dissent and the Supreme Court) seeks to provide context for understanding the history of affirmative action, along with the policy's successes and failures. The book opens with a review of the immediate challenges of abolishing slavery. Simply outlawing chattel bondage with the 13th Amendment in 1865 was not enough for some, yet clearly too much for others, Urofsky notes. Persistent argume...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
