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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Ira Katznelson Manufacturer: W. W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393328511 |
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A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.Customer Reviews:
Good research, presentist thesis.......2007-07-08
Affirmative action for White people, at least alot of white people .......2007-05-05
LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves.......2006-07-30
Rooseveltian politics and patricianism, Southern (and Midwestern) white racism, collude; OH, IGNORE THE TROLLS.......2006-06-16
Tell the Truth!.......2006-05-11
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Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Positions: Education, Politics and Culture)
Tim J. Wise Manufacturer: RoutledgeFalmer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 041595049X |
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Racial preference is nothing new, argues Tim J. Wise in this compelling exploration of race, privilege, and education. This book recasts the debate over today's controversial, race-based affirmative action policies. Wise deftly demonstrates that the American educational system has always been complicit in institutionalized racism and racial preference.
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Reclaiming Affirmative Action in the face of White Privilege.......2005-08-17
Essential reading.......2005-06-15
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How to Write an Affirmative Action Plan
Business & Legal Reports (Firm) Manufacturer: Business & Legal Reports Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: 1556454457 |
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Here's Everything You Need to Write Your Affirmative Action Plan
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Burning Down the House: Politics, Governance, and Affirmative Action at the University of California (Frontiers in Education)
Brian Pusser Manufacturer: State University of New York Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0791460576 |
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A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California.
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The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life
Gary S. Becker , and Guity Nashat Becker Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070067090 |
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"The great majority of people are more rational and make fewer mistakes in promoting their own interests than even well-intentioned government officials," writes this impressive couple (Gary won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Economics). The short, column-length essays that make up this volume first appeared in Business Week magazine and show for a popular audience how market incentives influence human behavior in countless ways. The Beckers criticize centralized planning, racial quotas and trade tariffs, and endorse drug legalization, privatized social security and school vouchers. They also veer into unexpected terrain, addressing religion, sports and marriage with keen insight.Book Description
From economics Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and historian Guity Nashat Becker comes this collection of the economist's popular BusinessWeek columns. These 138 essays have fueled numerous debates, touching on hot-button issues from crime to organization of sports. The Beckers' surprising--and uncompromising--positions on drugs ("legalize them"), immigration ("auction off immigration slots"), welfare ("curtail it sharply"), and other topics provide a provocative commentary on our times.Customer Reviews:
Easy to read everyday economics.......2007-05-18
Very readable, very practical.......2007-01-10
Becker's "Economics of Life".......2006-03-10
Dated, repetitive, superficial.......2006-01-15
Good, but the columns are getting old.......2005-11-17
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The Affirmative Action Debate
Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 020147963X |
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The most balanced treatment of a most misunderstood issue........2003-01-17
A very good and easy read, anyone with a desire to have as broad an understanding as possible on affirmative should buy and read this book.
The title alone gives offense.......2000-10-14
It is, in no stretch of the definition, a "debate" -- and it is intellectually offensive for the editors to attempt to pass it off as one. It is, instead, an almost entirely one-sided, exceedingly-pro-affirmative action screed.
Many of the essays in the book have merit; some are even persuasive. Yet the philosophical blinders evidenced in the gross partisanship of this book are THE most telling part of the story.
Don't you get it? This is why the pro-affirmative action side is doomed to eventual failure, after much (unnecessary) flailing...there is an *assumption* that this program is (now) an absolute minimum for social justice, and anyone who disagrees is, almost as a definitional precept: A Racist. The dangers are foreboding, and I'm not sure how our leaders are going to learn how to back down.
I am, in a way, African Americans' worst nightmare: I am white, male, socially very liberal, fiscally very conservative, and I'm growing tired of the constant attacks based solely on one-dimensional characteristics. I hope -- I truly do -- that African Americans will wake up and stop blaming everyone else for their ills. Yes, slavery was awful. Yet it was a fact of life, everywhere in the world (and still is, to this day, a fact of life in parts of the Middle East and Africa). Yes, the deprivations of modern day urban life are debilitating. But so they were for tens of millions of immigrants who moved on.
Get over it.
This is, I know, harsh. Yet it is also Tough Love. Both parts are crucial, as elder African Americans know. Move on, and move up. Stop asking for anything and everything -- and start demanding of yourself. Work twice as hard, and I will fight along side you to protect what you EARN. Keep whining about what is owed to you, and many, MANY will begin to grow tired of the endless complaining. Legitimate or not, it (the whining) is cancerous.
The better path for African Americans is education (academic and vocational) and ENTREPRENEURSHIP. This latter path, sadly lost to history, should be THE central focus of all leaders, today.
This is a warning. I hope I am wrong, but I fear I am not. I too have a dream: I hope the pseudo-philosophical screeching on either side subsides, and cooler (and more earnest) heads and hearts prevail.
Please, all, let's change our ways.
Really want to understand the issue? Read this book.......2000-09-12
Excellent and balanced collection of essays........2000-04-10
Excellent source of a variety of views on this issue........2000-03-30
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Secrets of Affirmative Action Compliance, Seventh Edition
William H. Truesdell Manufacturer: The Management Advantage, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1879876450 |
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THE #1 AAP REFERENCE FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS!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.
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Like having a consultant at your side.......1999-09-22
For big problems I'd still hire a consultant (probably the author of this book) but for routine stuff it's all in the book.
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Affirmative Action (Impact Books)
Geraldine Woods Manufacturer: Franklin Watts ProductGroup: Book Binding: School & Library Binding ASIN: 0531106578 |
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The New Leaders: Leadership Diversity in America (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
Ann M. Morrison Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787901849 |
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By the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow's new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.
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not the most scintillating text, but full of info.......2001-01-05
In short, a useful book for managers or leaders in charge of spreading the gospel who need a model for making major changes. By reading about other companies' mistakes, I imagine others will be more fortunate in terms of avoiding these pitfalls.
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TURNING BACK CL
Stephen Steinberg Manufacturer: Beacon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0807041106 |
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From the author of The Ethnic Myth comes this cogent analysis of how social science has placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. From a powerful critique of Gunnar Myrdal's classic An American Dilemma to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, Turning Back offers a challenge to liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the current backlash by providing a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies designed to advance the cause of racial justice.Books:
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