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Loading... Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in Americaby Hugh Davis Graham
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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 1960's, when a system of split government No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)325.73Social sciences Political Science International migration and colonization North America United StatesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |