The History of Affirmative Action in the USA

A Teaching and Learning Guide

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12912232
AutoresJennifer L Pierce (0000-0002-8407-7499, University of Minnesota System, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas89-98
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12097
OpenAlexW1835363161
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

This Teaching and Learning Guide is designed to accompany my Sociology Compass article on affirmative action. The sample syllabus is organized historically beginning with FDR's New Deal and the first use of the term affirmative action and ending with the most recent Supreme Court's deliberations on this policy. In doing so, it attends not only to the varied meanings and forms of affirmative action across time but also the different interest groups arguing for and against this remedial policy. Along the way, it explores the changing history of race relations in the USA, considers the value of personal narratives as sources in exploring meaning and personhood, examines the ways the news media has framed the debate in contemporary America, and finally, speculates about the future of this controversial policy

Action (physics · Affirmative action · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Pedagogy · Personhood · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Supreme court · Syllabus · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society