TY - BOOK AU - Deslippe,Dennis ED - Project Muse. TI - Protesting affirmative action: the struggle over equality after the civil rights revolution T2 - Reconfiguring American political history SN - 9781421404318 AV - HF5549.5.A34 D427 2012 U1 - 323.173 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Baltimore, Md. PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Affirmative action programs KW - Law and legislation KW - United States KW - Race discrimination KW - History KW - Equality KW - Race relations KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "The best affirmative action program is creating jobs for everyone" : organized labor responds to affirmative action, 1960-74 -- "This strange madness" : the origins of opposition to higher education : affirmative action, 1968-72 -- "The issue is getting hotter" : the struggle over higher education -- Affirmative action policy in the early 1970s -- "Treat him as a decent American!" : DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and -- Color-blindness in the courtroom -- "Do whites have rights?" : white Detroit policemen and "reverse discrimination" protests in the mid-late 1970s -- "The fight for true non-discrimination" : politics and anti-affirmative action before Bakke -- Conclusion UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421404318/ ER -