Collision course :: the strange convergence of affirmative action and immigration policy in America /

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform applauded by the majority of Americans. But today, as Hugh Graham shows in Collision Course, affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigrati...

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1. Verfasser: Graham, Hugh Davis
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Zusammenfassung:When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform applauded by the majority of Americans. But today, as Hugh Graham shows in Collision Course, affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct conflict for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs. How did two such well-intended laws come to loggerheads? Graham argues that a sea change occurred in American political life in the late 1960s, when a system of split governme.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198032700
0198032706
9780195143188
0195143183
1280531304
9781280531309

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