Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

Contributor(s): Gurin, Patricia (Author), Lehman, Jeffrey S (Author), Lewis, Earl (Author), Dey, Eric L (Author), Hurtado, Sylvia (Author), Gurin, Gerald (Author)

ISBN: 9780472113071

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Hardcover

$39.95

Pub Date: February 27, 2004

Dewey: 379.260973

LCCN: 2003026183

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.92" H x 9.30" L x 6.38" W ( 1.15 lbs) 218 pages

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Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River

Review Quotes:

"Readers interested in broad historical and social analysis of affirmative action will appreciate this book."
--Booklist

--Vernon Ford "Booklist" (4/16/2004 12:00:00 AM)

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