Affirmative action matters [electronic resource] : creating opportunities for students around the world / edited by Laura Dudley Jenkins and Michele S. Moses.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. National vicissitudes in higher education affirmative action policies / Michele S. Moses and Laura Dudley Jenkins -- 2. Assessing affirmative action programs on six continents / Michele S. Moses ... [et al.] -- 3. India : beginning a new debate on reserved admissions for castes, tribes and "other backward classes" / Kavita A. Sharma and Laura Dudley Jenkins -- 4. Bulgaria : social justice and privileged access to higher education in a totalitarian society, 1944-1989 / Pepka Boyadjieva -- 5. The United States : the changing context of access to higher education / Patricia Marin -- 6. South Africa : affirming affirmative action through university alternate access programs / Rudi Kimmie and Laura Dudley Jenkins -- 7. Brazil : enhancing opportunity and justice through new affirmative action policies for black and mixed-race students / Sandra Regina Sales and Michele S. Moses -- 8. France : affirmative action in French higher education : squaring the circle / Stephan Vincent-Lancrin -- 9. Affirmative action matters : social justice in the era of diversity / Laura Dudley Jenkins and Michele S. Moses.