Diversity in America (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter H. Schuck
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Law
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Law and jurisprudence
- Subjects: Social action, United States or Americans, Social reform, Politics, Social issues, Education or educators, Twenty-first century, Prejudices or antipathies, Schools or school life, Ethnic groups, Colleges or universities, Higher education
Timing matters a good deal in the world of legal scholarship. Scholars who address constitutional issues, for example, frequently write with an eye to an audience of nine individuals—the chief justice and eight associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. It is no mystery, then, that one of the most comprehensive discussions of diversity in American life arrived on bookstore shelves on the eve of decisions in two of the most important cases concerning affirmative action in the previous quarter century. In the pair of cases, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v....
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