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Informationen zum Autor Carol M. Allen is a research specialist at Michigan State University. Klappentext In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story relates what happened from the vantage point of Toward A Fair Michigan (TAFM), a nonprofit organization that provided a civic forum for the discussion of preferences. The book offers a timely "inside look" into how TAFM fostered dialogue by emphasizing education over indoctrination, reason over rhetoric, and civil debate over protest. Ending Racial Preferences opens with a review of the campaigns for and against similar initiatives in California, Florida, Washington, and the city of Houston. The book then delivers an in-depth historical account of the MCRI-from its inception in 2003 through the first year following its passage in 2006. Readers are invited to decide for themselves whether affirmative action preferences are good for America. Carol M. Allen reproduces the remarks delivered at a TAFM debate, along with a compilation of pro and con responses by 14 experts to 50 questions about preferences. This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of public policy and state politics. Zusammenfassung Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story provides an in-depth account of the 2006 Michigan Civil Rights Initiative! told from the perspective of Toward A Fair Michigan! a non-partisan educational organization. The book also analyzes the campaigning and impact of similar initiatives in California! Florida! Washington! and the city of Houston. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 1 What Came Before Chapter 6 2 Creating a Fair Michigan, Part I: The Ballot Petition Process Chapter 7 3 Creating a Fair Michigan, Part II: The Election Campaigns Chapter 8 4 The Debates: A Simple Dialogue Chapter 9 5 "Ask the Experts": Questions from the Debates Chapter 10 6 What Followed? Chapter 11 7 Moving from Diversity to Inclusion: The Way Forward Chapter 12 Appendix I: Debates Sponsored by Toward A Fair Michigan Chapter 13 Appendix II: Audience Feedback from the TAFM Debates Chapter 14 Appendix III: Brief of Amicus Curiae Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 About the Author and Contributor ...
