For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Kennedy, Randall

For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307949363)

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For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Kennedy, Randall

For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

$16.95
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Kennedy, Randall

For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America's most explosively contentious and divisive issues--from "one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law."--The Washington Post

"A clear-eyed take on America's battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with fearlessness and a certain cheekiness." --Los Angeles Times

"Compelling.... Powerful." --Wall Street Journal

What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must?

Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.

Author: Randall Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0307949362
ISBN-13: 9780307949363
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By Randall Kennedy
By Randall Kennedy
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Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his law degree from Yale. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the author of five previous books, including Race, Crime, and the Law, for which he received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. A member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States and the District of Columbia, and of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he lives in Massachusetts.

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