Collision course : the strange convergence of affirmative action and immigration policy in America
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform applauded by the majority of Americans. But today, as Hugh Graham shows in Collision Course, affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct conflict for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs. How did two such well-intended laws come to loggerheads? Graham argues that a sea change occurred in American political life in the late 1960s, when a system of split governme
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9780198032700, 9780195143188, 9781280531309, 0198032706, 0195143183, 1280531304
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Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Civil Rights Reform in the 1960s; 3 Immigration Reform in the 1960s; 4 Origins and Development of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action; 5 The Return of Mass Immigration; 6 The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z