The Minority Rights Revolution

by Skrentny, John D.

• ISBN13: 9780674016187
• ISBN10: 0674016181
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

policies that have made the country more egalitarian but left it perhaps as divided as ever.

Author Biography

John D. Skrentny is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: How War and the Black Civil Rights Movement Changed America	1	(20)
2 "This Is War and This Is a War Measure": Racial Equality Becomes National Security	21	(45)
3 National Security and Equal Rights: Limits and Qualifications	66	(19)
4 "We Were Advancing the Really Revolutionary View of Discrimination": Designating Official Minorities for Affirmative Action in Employment	85	(58)
5 "In View of the Existence of the Other Significant Minorities": The Expansion of Affirmative Action for Minority Capitalists	143	(22)
6 "Race Is a Very Relevant Personal Characteristic": Affirmative Admissions, Diversity, and the Supreme Court	165	(14)
7 "Learn, Amigo, Learn!": Bilingual Education and Language Rights in the Schools	179	(51)
8 "I Agree with You about the Inherent Absurdity": Title IX and Women's Equality in Education	230	(33)
9 White Males and the Limits of the Minority Rights Revolution: The Disabled, White Ethnics, and Gays	263	(65)
10 Conclusion: The Rare American Epiphany	328	(31)
Notes	359	(102)
Index	461