Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr.

Book Overview

The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465029965
• ISBN13: 9780465029969
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher