Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice
online
The Law of Affirmative Action: Twenty-five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies
online
The Affirmative Action Debate
HF5549.5.A34 A4632 2002
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African Americans,
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Affirmative Action, Employment
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