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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimination and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discrimination? It's tempting to believe that civil rights litigation can combat these social ills as efficiently as it has fought blatant discrimination. In Rights Gone Wrong , Richard Thompson Ford, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Race Card , argues that this is seldom the case. Civil rights do too much and not enough: opportunists use them to get a competitive edge in schools and job markets, while special-interest groups use them to demand special privileges. Extremists on both the left and the right have hijacked civil rights for personal advantage. Worst of all, their theatrics have drawn attention away from more serious social injustices. Ford, a professor of law at Stanford University, shows us the many ways in which civi

Author

Richard Thompson Ford

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429969253

Subjects

Science, Law

Rating

3.54 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14