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28
Juni
1978

The Bakke judgment reshapes affirmative-action struggles

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📅 28 Juni 1978 📍 Verenigde Staten

The US Supreme Court invalidated the University of California, Davis medical school's reserved-seat admissions programme, while allowing race to be considered as one factor in pursuit of educational diversity. The divided judgment became a major reference point in struggles over access to elite institutions. It exposed competing understandings of equality: identical treatment of individuals and measures addressing historically structured exclusion.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Allan Bakke

Lewis Powell

Thurgood Marshall

Organisaties in dit Evenement

US Supreme Court

University of California