The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700610464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pretty good N. Perz I've read other book about Supreme Court cases that did a better job than this but TBC isn't terrible. I thought that there was too much time of a relatively short book spent on the background of the case and not enough discussion of the legal issues at play and the precedent. The most interesting aspect of the book was the insights into the closed-door exchanges among the justices and the evolution of the opinion.Recommended, not because the book is great, but because ev
"A fair and clear-headed account. It is a story about the unmet promises of the early civil rights era." --University Press of Kansas . "The Bakke Case is more than the story of Allan Bakke's efforts to gain admission to the University of California, Davis Medical School
Justice Lewis Powell sided with both viewpoints, resulting in Bakke's admission to the school and the upholding of affirmative action. He also reviews recent events such as California Proposition 209, Washington Initiative 200, the "One Florida Initiative" program, and the Supreme Court's refusal to overturn Texas v. He examines the law and politics surrounding Bakke in an even-handed manner, presenting both sides of the debate and discussing key arguments presented by pressure groups. Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action. Hopwood a decision that forced the University of Texas to eliminate affirmative action in its law school.As affirmative action continues to divide judges, legislatures, and citizens, the fragile consensus forged by Justice Powell seems to be collapsing. The Court's unusual split decision invalidated UC-Davis's quota program for minorities but also struck down a California court's ruling that race could not be used as a factor in considering applicants.
Among his many books are Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide, also from Kansas, and A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America. Howard Ball, a veteran of the civil rights movement, is professor of political science and former dean of arts and sciences at the University of Vermont.