Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative ActionNYU Press, 01.01.1998 - 240 Seiten The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks. |
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... housing , education , voting , and employment , the federal government has been the great defender , periodically vindicating the American constitutional promise of equality . All the civil rights laws enacted in the 1960s had one aim ...
... housing , voting , employment , public accommodations , or education , because that discrimination was either sanctioned by the Constitution or beyond its reach . Just before the Civil War , in the landmark opinion in Dred Scott v ...
... to the United States ' best educational resources , it followed that they would also win its best jobs , highest incomes , and best housing . To make sure , many whites adhered to private practices that guaranteed their superior.
... housing . Those laws permitted , and insome circumstances required , remedial affirmative action . For a short period , it appeared that each branch of the federal government was committed to eliminating racial caste . By the mid ...
... housing . Rather , such policies were enacted because of their remedial effect , thereby making reverse discrimination a travesty . Many white Americans believe the fairy tale about racial equality in the United States , which , in turn ...
Inhalt
WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK DESPAIR | |
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF REMEDIAL | |
The Court of Last Resort | |
The Invention of Reverse Discrimination | |
Myth or Reality? | |
Racial Realism | |
Eliminating Caste | |
Notes | |
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