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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today's tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable" 'Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, "Definitive"'Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ("Riveting"'Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Examines whether discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation, and religion exists in the United States, how these prejudices impact American society, the effectiveness of affirmative action, and the impact of the U.S. government on the issue.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture-and so...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Transportation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Department of Transportation is committed to ensuring that all decisions involving its employees, contractors, and the traveling public are based on individual merit, comport with the most fundamental principles of the equality of opportunity and human dignity and are free from discrimination in all its forms. It is the policy of CDOT not to engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, national origin,...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Transportation
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Department of Transportation is committed to ensuring that all decisions involving its employees, contractors, and the traveling public are based on individual merit, comport with the most fundamental principles of the equality of opportunity and human dignity and are free from discrimination in all its forms. It is the policy of CDOT not to engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, national origin,...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Transportation
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Department of Transportation is committed to ensuring that all decisions involving its employees, contractors, and the traveling public are based on individual merit, comport with the most fundamental principles of the equality of opportunity and human dignity and are free from discrimination in all its forms. It is the policy of CDOT not to engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, national origin,...
13) Who's qualified?
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Explores the benefits and pitfalls of affirmative action and explains why the program has failed to improve the American workforce.
14) Business center
Publisher
Colorado Department of Transportation
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Links to information on how to do business with the Colorado Department of Transportation. Areas of interest: bidding opportunities, design/construction support, permits, data/traffic counts/maps, procurement bidding, financial mgmt & budget, CDOT rules, civil rights & business resource center, and Connect2Dot
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice."-from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States
An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions, fears, hopes and illusions embedded in our complicated perceptions of race. Looking beyond the platitudes and pronouncements that tend to distort reality...
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