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Ending Racial Preferences
The Michigan Story
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2009
Summary
In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story relates what happened from the vantage point of Toward A Fair Michigan (TAFM), a nonprofit organization that provided a civic forum for the discussion of preferences. The book offers a timely 'inside look' into how TAFM fostered dialogue by emphasizing education over indoctrination, reason over rhetoric, and civil debate over protest. Ending Racial Preferences opens with a review of the campaigns for and against similar initiatives in California, Florida, Washington, and the city of Houston. The book then delivers an in-depth historical account of the MCRIDfrom its inception in 2003 through the first year following its passage in 2006. Readers are invited to decide for themselves whether affirmative action preferences are good for America. Carol M. Allen reproduces the remarks delivered at a TAFM debate, along with a compilation of pro and con responses by 14 experts to 50 questions about preferences. This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of public policy and state politics.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2433-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3829-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
422
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. What Came Before No access Pages 1 - 46
Chapter 02. Creating a Fair Michigan—Part I: The Ballot Petition Process No access Pages 47 - 100
Chapter 03. Creating a Fair Michigan—Part II: The Election Campaigns No access Pages 101 - 154
Chapter 04. The Debates: A Sample Dialogue No access Pages 155 - 178
Chapter 05. “Ask the Experts": Questions from the Debates No access Pages 179 - 254
Chapter 06. What Followed? No access Pages 255 - 362
Chapter 07. Moving from Diversity to Inclusion The Way Forward No access Pages 363 - 384
Appendix A: Debates Sponsored by Toward A Fair Michigan No access Pages 385 - 386
