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- Conflict of Principles : the Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
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- University Press of Kansas
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- Discrimination, Civil Rights, Higher
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- English
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University Press of Kansas
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0700619968
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9780700619962
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312 Pages
Publication Name
Conflict of Principles : the Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
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English
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Discrimination, Civil Rights, Higher
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Textbook
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Law, Education
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Hardcover
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"Carl Cohen's memoir is fascinating and important on two counts: one, as an insider account of a pair of the most important civil rights cases in our generation; and second, as the story of a liberal professor caught, by commitment to his principles, in the vortex of unremitting political correctness at an otherwise great university."-- Richard Sander , author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, Carl Cohen was an eyewitness and key participant in the debates over racial preferences in college admissions for nearly 40 years. His book aims to advance his long-standing principled argument against racial preferences in college admissions.He does this by citing Constitutional law, legal history, and the long struggle for black civil rights.His general point is that the Constitution is and ought to be colorblind.Racial preferences in college admissions violate both the letter and spirit of our nations commitment to equal treatment under the law. Interwoven with this legal argument is a moral argument.Cohen makes it clear that he finds disparate treatment of individuals based on race to be repugnant.I know of no other source that is comparable.-- Peter Wood , President of National Association of Scholars Carl Cohen's memoir is fascinating and important on two counts:one, as an insider account of a pair of the most important civil rights cases in our generation; and second, as the story of a liberal professor caught, by commitment to his principles, in the vortex of unremitting political correctness at an otherwise great university.-- Richard Sander , author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students Its Intended to Help, and Why Universities Wont Admit It, "The book is part memoir, part history, part policy--and all excellent."-- The Federalist Society "If anyone deserves a lifetime achievement award for dedication to civil liberties and ivil rights it is Carl Cohen. A Conflict of Principles gives us an insider's account of some of the most important legal and constitutional struggles he has taken on over the past three decades."-- Academic Questions " A Conflict of Principles is a kind of legal memoir, tracking Mr. Cohen's own involvement in the battles over racial preferences and, in engaging and lucid prose, offering a critique of the judicial reasoning behind several momentous court decisions."-- Wall Street Journal, "Carl Cohen's memoir is fascinating and important on two counts: one, as an insider account of a pair of the most important civil rights cases in our generation; and second, as the story of a liberal professor caught, by commitment to his principles, in the vortex of unremitting political correctness at an otherwise great university."- Richard Sander , author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, " A Conflict of Principles is a kind of legal memoir, tracking Mr. Cohen's own involvement in the battles over racial preferences and, in engaging and lucid prose, offering a critique of the judicial reasoning behind several momentous court decisions."- Wall Street Journal, "If anyone deserves a lifetime achievement award for dedication to civil liberties and ivil rights it is Carl Cohen. A Conflict of Principles gives us an insider's account of some of the most important legal and constitutional struggles he has taken on over the past three decades."- Academic Questions, " A Conflict of Principles is a kind of legal memoir, tracking Mr. Cohen's own involvement in the battles over racial preferences and, in engaging and lucid prose, offering a critique of the judicial reasoning behind several momentous court decisions."-- Wall Street Journal, "Carl Cohen was an eyewitness and key participant in the debates over racial preferences in college admissions for nearly 40 years. His book aims to advance his long-standing principled argument against racial preferences in college admissions. He does this by citing Constitutional law, legal history, and the long struggle for black civil rights. His general point is that the Constitution is and ought to be colorblind. Racial preferences in college admissions violate both the letter and spirit of our nation's commitment to equal treatment under the law. Interwoven with this legal argument is a moral argument. Cohen makes it clear that he finds disparate treatment of individuals based on race to be repugnant. I know of no other source that is comparable."- Peter Wood , President of National Association of Scholars "Carl Cohen's memoir is fascinating and important on two counts: one, as an insider account of a pair of the most important civil rights cases in our generation; and second, as the story of a liberal professor caught, by commitment to his principles, in the vortex of unremitting political correctness at an otherwise great university."- Richard Sander , author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, "Carl Cohen was an eyewitness and key participant in the debates over racial preferences in college admissions for nearly 40 years. His book aims to advance his long-standing principled argument against racial preferences in college admissions. He does this by citing Constitutional law, legal history, and the long struggle for black civil rights. His general point is that the Constitution is and ought to be colorblind. Racial preferences in college admissions violate both the letter and spirit of our nation's commitment to equal treatment under the law. Interwoven with this legal argument is a moral argument. Cohen makes it clear that he finds disparate treatment of individuals based on race to be repugnant. I know of no other source that is comparable."-- Peter Wood , President of National Association of Scholars "Carl Cohen's memoir is fascinating and important on two counts: one, as an insider account of a pair of the most important civil rights cases in our generation; and second, as the story of a liberal professor caught, by commitment to his principles, in the vortex of unremitting political correctness at an otherwise great university."-- Richard Sander , author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, "Carl Cohen was an eyewitness and key participant in the debates over racial preferences in college admissions for nearly 40 years. His book aims to advance his long-standing principled argument against racial preferences in college admissions. He does this by citing Constitutional law, legal history, and the long struggle for black civil rights. His general point is that the Constitution is and ought to be colorblind. Racial preferences in college admissions violate both the letter and spirit of our nation's commitment to equal treatment under the law. Interwoven with this legal argument is a moral argument. Cohen makes it clear that he finds disparate treatment of individuals based on race to be repugnant. I know of no other source that is comparable."- Peter Wood , President of National Association of Scholars
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
344.774/0798
Table Of Content
Prologue 1. How It All Began 2. Bakke and the Rise of Diversity 3. From The Nation to Commentary 4. From Washington to Berlin and Beyond 5. Naked Racial Preference 6. The University of Michigan Comes into Focus 7. Confrontation 8. Pulling Teeth 9. Revelation 10. Further Revelations 11. What Was I to Do? 12. Point of No Return 13. On to the Federal Courts 14. The Climate of Opinion at Michigan 15. The Reading Room 16. Moving Targets 17. Intervenors 18. The Thin Line between Permissible and Impermissible 19. 128 Honorary Degrees and a Coat Check 20. The Heart of the Trial: 257 to 1,000 21. Vindication 22. Petitions Don't Decide Lawsuits 23. Why It Smelled Funny 24. Back on the Home Front 25. Some Personal Questions 26. Preparing for the Big Event 27. The Big Event 28. The End of Litigation 29. From Legal Battles to to Political Battles: The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative 30. Defending the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative 31. The Michigan Constitution Amended 32. Race Preference at the University of Texas 33. Race Preference in Michigan Is Permanently Ended Appendix A: Freedom of Information Act Requests Appendix B: The Cohen Report, 20 March 1996 Appendix C: The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) Notes Index
Synopsis
"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 contested affirmative action programs as they made their way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, beginning with DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) at the University of Washington Law School, then Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) at the Medical School on the UC Davis campus, and culminating at the University of Michigan in the landmark cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003). He recounts his role in the initiation of the Michigan cases, explaining the many arguments against racial preferences in college admissions. He presents a principled case for the resultant amendment to the Michigan constitution, of which he was a prominent advocate, which prohibited preference by race in public employment and public contracting, as well as in public education. An eminently readable personal, consistently fair-minded account of the principles and politics that come into play in the struggles over affirmative action, A Conflict of Principles is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to our national conversation about race., A personal and fair-minded account of the principles and politics at play in the four decades long battle over affirmative action in higher education.
LC Classification Number
KFM4592.2.C64 2014
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