Wounds That Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide

by Russell K Nieli

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who had fought the good fight against segregation and Jim Crow to further a color-blind justice, with a sense of outrage and deep betrayal. In the more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594035822
• ISBN13: 9781594035821
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"