Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has been the most controversial i

The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review articles, numerous court decisions, and several

Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired

An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important issue

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