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In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision regarding Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of America's most explosively contentious and divisive issues and a principled work of advocacy for clearly defined justice. What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others' Does it signify a boon or a stigma' Or is it simply reverse discrimination' What are its benefits and costs to American society' What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action' When should affirmative action end, if it must' Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School professor and author of such critically acclaimed and provocative books as Race, Crime, and the Law and the national best-seller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, gives us a concise, gimlet-eyed, and deeply personal conspectus of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations. With pellucid reasoning, Kennedy accounts for the slipperiness of the term "affirmative action" as it has been approp

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Author

Randall Kennedy

Publisher

Pantheon Books; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307949363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Law

Rating

3.83 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14