Most Americans support the elimination of race and gender prejudice and inequality, yet attitudes toward solutions have fluctuated since the civil rights movement began. A heated debate over the explicit use of race- and gender-based categories has taken center stage in the 1990s, and all eyes are on California, a precedent-setting state since establishing its first antidiscrimination policies in 1934 (federal policies followed almost a decade later). Paul Ong's collection of cogent social policy analysis and careful research intervene in these debates with grounded and complex assessments of the present and future of affirmative action. Chapters explore programs and outcomes in higher education, federal and state contracting, public employment, and minority- and women-owned businesses.
- ISBN10 0761990569
- ISBN13 9780761990567
- Publish Date 4 June 1999 (first published 27 May 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English