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Informationen zum Autor Richard D. Kahlenberg, a fellow of the Center for National Policy, has been a visiting associate professor of law at George Washington University and a legislative assistant to Senator Charles S. Robb of Virginia. Klappentext A Fellow of the Center for National Policy, Richard D. Kahlenberg argues that affirmative action programs ought to be based not on race but on class. Kahlenberg outlines how a class-based system of affirmative action would work. He shows that it is time to return to affirmative action's roots, so that it works to the benefit of the truly disadvantaged, regardless of race. Zusammenfassung In this provocative and paradigm-shifting book, Richard D. Kahlenberg argues that affirmative action programs ought to be based not on race but on class. America's exclusive focus on race in determining how to allocate economic and educational opportunities has served only to undermine the moral legitimacy of affirmative action, the results clearly visible in the growing public sentiment to abolish such programs.Kahlenberg shows that it is time to return to affirmative action's roots, so that it works to the benefit of the truly disadvantaged, regardless of race. In a sweeping and damning analysis, Kahlenberg examines how the rationale for affirmative action has moved inexorably away from its original commitment to remedy past discrimination and instead has become a means to achieve racial diversity, even if that means giving preference to upper-middle-class blacks over poor whites. He outlines how a class-based system of affirmative action would work, why all Americans should embrace it, and how the African-American community in particular would continue to reap the benefits it needs without engendering resentment among whites. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Evolution Of Affirmative Action * The Early Aspirations of Affirmative Action * Affirmative Action Gone Astray * A Report Card on Affirmative Action Today Class-Based Affirmative Action * The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action * The Mechanics of Class-Based Affirmative Action * Six Myths About Class-Based Preferences Toward What End? * Picking Up the Lost Thread ...
