Justice and Reverse Discrimination
Goldman, Alan H.
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Add to basket251 pp., x. NAP. Following Acknowledgments, Contents divided into 5 chapters: ONE "Introduction"; TWO "Awarding Positions by Competence"; THREE "Compensation and the Past"; FOUR "Equal Opportunity and the Future"; FIVE "Conclusion"; Notes, pp. 235-240; Selected Bibliography, pp.241-245; Index, pp. 247-251. Glossy black and red wrappers with title lettering in white over black on top 2/5 front cover, above lower 3/5 cover in red, with author name across bottom front cover in black letters superimposed over red background. Essentially, As New, but for meager hint of curls at corners and previous owner name and purchase date discreetly at top left inside front cover. Tight binding (NO creases); essentially sharp corners; NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Looks UNREAD, unused, crisp. Three news clippings laid in (NO offsetting): Steven A. Holmes, " Costs, Not Quotas, WorrySome Foes of Rights Bill" (New York Times 5 25 90); Mary S. Hartman, "Mills Students Provided Eloquent Testimony to the Value of Women's Colleges", (Chronicle of Higher Education, "Point of View", July 5, 1990); Robert L. Mills, "Trying to Make a Right Out of Wrongs" (New York Times, Letter to the Editor, 7 18 1990).
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Through careful consideration of the mutually plausible yet conflicting arguments on both sides of the issue, Alan Goldman attempts to derive a morally consistent position on the justice (or injustice) of reverse discrimination. From a philosophical framework that appeals to a contractual model of ethics, he develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity. He then applies these principles to the issue at hand, bringing his conclusions to bear on an evaluation of Affirmative Action programs as they tend to work in practice.
Originally published in 1979.
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