Selected SAGE Articles on Affirmative Action Free to you through 10/24/2012

Students, parents, and affirmative action supporters rallied on the steps of the Supreme Court today to make a statement about diversity and opportunity in U.S. universities. The first U.S. Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action since 2003, Fisher v. Texas, is likely to make bring about an important decision on whether or not it is constitutional to consider race when making admissions decisions for university students.

For those of you who are interested in the topic and want to know more about what researchers and scholars have published, we have opened up 7 articles to the public for a limited time:

“The Resilience of Affirmative Action in the 1980s: Innovation, Isomorphism, and Institutionalization in University Admissions” by Daniel N. Lipson from Political Research Quarterly – http://prq.sagepub.com/content/64/1/132.full.pdf+html
“The Perceived Elimination of Affirmative Action and the Strengthening of Historically Black Colleges and Universities” by Robert Palmer from Journal of Black Studies – http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/40/4/762.full.pdf+html
“Maneuvers of Whiteness: ‘Diversity’ as a Mechanism of Retrenchment in the Affirmative Action Discourse” by Wendy Leo Moore and Joyce M. Bell from Critical Sociology – http://crs.sagepub.com/content/37/5/597.full.pdf+html
“White Attitudes toward Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action” by Nancy DiTomaso, Rochelle Parks-Yancy, and Corinne Post from Critical Sociology – http://crs.sagepub.com/content/37/5/615.full.pdf+html
“The End of Affirmative Action in Washington State and Its Impact on the Transition from High School to College” by Susan K. Brown and Charles Hirschman from Sociology of Education – http://soe.sagepub.com/content/79/2/106.full.pdf+html
“Moral and Instrumental Rationales for Affirmative Action in Five National Contexts” by Michele S. Moses from Educational Researcher – http://edr.sagepub.com/content/39/3/211.full.pdf+html
“Support For A Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision: A Story in Black and White” by Rosalee A. Clawson, and Eric N. Waltenburg from American Politics Research – http://apr.sagepub.com/content/31/3/251.full.pdf+html

Happy reading!

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One Response to Selected SAGE Articles on Affirmative Action Free to you through 10/24/2012

Top Invests Reviews says:

December 26, 2012 at 7:10 am

Excellent Report. Looking forward to more, thank you! =)