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Affirmative action.

Part of a special section on affirmative action. Contrary to what many conservatives assert, preferential treatment is not something new to U.S. patterns of public policy and has an ethical basis in what could be called a “higher public purpose”: undoing and compensating for a long history of disc...

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Published in:Dissent (00123846) Vol. 42; pp. 469 - 471
Main Author: Kilson, Martin
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall95
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