Skrentny, John D. The minority rights revolution.SKRENTNY, John D. The minority rights revolution. Harvard Harvard, town (1990 pop. 12,329), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a Harvard observatory are there. Univ. Press. 473p. notes. index. c2002. 067401618-1. $18.95. SA A professor of sociology, Skrentny has written an academic analysis of minority rights in America since WW II. While his writing style is easy to read, his research, tables and statistics are formidable. Tracing modern American minority rights to the victory of the Allies over the Nazis in WW II and to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, he shows how minority rights became a question of national security. He also shows how civil rights led to affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. and an extension to the rights of all minorities and to women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , and eventually to the limits of minority rights. The book is well annotated and concludes with a complete glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. . It serves as a definitive, yet unique, approach to this subject. Nola Theiss, Sanibel, FL S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code help librarian (1) A person who works in the data library and keeps track of the tapes and disks that are stored and logged out for use. Also known as a "file librarian" or "media librarian." See data library. (2) See CA-Librarian. and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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