A Conflict of Principles
：The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Publication subTitle ：The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Author： Cohen > Carl
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9780700620432
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700619962
Subject： D90 theory of law (jurisprudence);D91 Legal departments;D913 民法;D923 civil law
Keyword： 法律
Language： ENG
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Description
"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination—calling it "affirmative action"—he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in an effort to defend the equal treatment of the races at his university. In A Conflict of Principles Cohen tells the story of what happened at Michigan, how racial preferences were devised and implemented there, and what was at stake in the heated and divisive controversy that ensued. He gives voice to the judicious and seldom heard liberal argument against affirmative action in college admission policies.
In the early 1970s, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cohen vigorously supported programs devised to encourage the recruitment of minorities in colleges, and in private employment. But some of these efforts gave deliberate preference to blacks and Hispanics seeking university admission, and this Cohen recognized as a form of racism, however well-meaning. In his book he recounts the fortunes of
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