On Higher Ground: Education and the Case for Affirmative Action.

Feinberg, Walter

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Title:	On Higher Ground: Education and the Case for Affirmative Action.
Authors:	Feinberg, Walter
Descriptors:	Affirmative Action; Higher Education; Legal Responsibility; Minority Groups; Racial Discrimination; Racial Factors; Sex Bias; Theories
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Publisher:	Teacher's College Press, P.O. Box 20, Williston, VT 05495-0020 ($16.95).
Publication Date:	1998-00-00
Pages:	97
Pub Types:	Books; Opinion Papers
Abstract:	This book, in response to recent attacks on principles of affirmative action for minorities, suggests that need-based affirmative action cannot substitute for programs based on race and gender. It proposes a theory of affirmative action based on the contention that affirmative action has three morally defensible goals: (1) correction of systematic and long-standing ruptures of the principle of equal opportunity; (2) advancement of the standing of people who have been discriminated against because of ascribed characteristics such as gender or skin color; and (3) meeting an historical obligation. The five chapters cover such topics as the background and need for a theory of affirmative action; markets, educational selection, poverty, and affirmative action; the case for backward-looking gender- and race-based policy rather than need-based affirmative action; group rights and historical obligations; and need, diversity, and group variation. (DB)
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Note:	Foreword by Julian Bond.
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Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	3 - Indexed only
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ISBN:	ISBN-0-8077-3698-8
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Higher Education

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