Sex, race, and merit : debating affirmative action in education and employment
Since its inception, affirmative action has been a controversial policy, and on all sides of the issue passions run high. Sometimes commentators have looked with clarity at the deep and complex issues surrounding affirmative action, but too often facts have been in shorter supply than misinformed opinions. Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment is designed to enhance intelligent discussion of the issues, presenting all sides of the controversy and working to separate fact from fiction. Sex, Race, and Merit brings together a rich array of material, including newspaper articles and essays by leading scholars. including William Bowen, Derek Bok, Barbara Bergmann, Christopher Edley, Barbara Reskin, Claude Steele, and Patricia Williams. Also featured are excerpts from primary sources, including the legislative documents that established affirmative action policy; the text of California Proposal 200, which ended such policy in that state; and excerpts from key legal cases, including the Bakke case and other recent cases. Sex, Race, and Merit is a useful tool in eliciting thoughtful, informed, and useful debate on the subject of affirmative action. It neither advocates in favor of affirmative action, nor does it speak against it. Rather, by including both factual and polemical materials, the book allows readers to explore the contours of the debate as well as the facts being debated. It is designed for an audience of nonspecialist readers, including students from secondary school through college, but will also be useful to scholars interested in the evolution and current status of this critical policy debate. Faye J. Crosby is Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Cheryl VanDeVeer is Director of the Document Publishing and Editing Center, University of California, Santa Cruz
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2000
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 338 pages ; 25 cm
9780472097340, 9780472067343, 0472097342, 0472067346
43798450
pt. I. Basics
Words worth of wisdom : toward an understanding of affirmative action / Faye J. Cosby and Diana I. Cordova
Key dates in the battle over affirmative action policy / Lydia Chávez
pt. 2. Newspaper articles
U.C. must end affirmative action / Ward Connerly
Defining disadvantage up to preserve preferences / Steven A. Holmes
In defense of affirmative action / Chang-Lin Tien
Study of doctors sees little effect of affirmative action on careers / Ethan Bronner
Scholarship program for whites becomes a test of preferences / June Kronholz
Not color blind : just blind / Nicholas deB. Katzenbach and Burke Marshall
Defining affirmative action / Wall Street Journal
An equal chance / Lani Guinier
For Asian Americans, a barrier or a boon? / Michael A. Fletcher
When a law firm is like a baseball team
Racial profiling : wrong for police, wrong for universities / Edward Blum and Marc Levin
Inclusive America, under attack / Gerald R. Ford
pt. 3. Scholars write on affirmative action in education and employment
Pro affirmative action
From the alchemy of race and rights / Patricia J. Williams
From justice, gender, and affirmative action / Susan D. Clayton and Faye J. Crosby
From in defense of affirmative action / Barbara R. Bergman
From not all black and white : affirmative action, race, and American values / Christopher Edley, Jr
The realities of affirmative action in employment / Barbara F. Reskin
From the shape of the river : long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions / William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
Expert testimony in defense of affirmative action / Claude M. Steele
From "addressing and redressing discrimination : affirmative action in social psychological perspective" / Faye J. Crosby, Bernardo M. Ferdman, and Blanche R. Wingate
Anti affirmative action
From hunger of memory : the education of Robert Rodriguez
From the content of our character : a new vision of race in America / Shelby Steele
From reflections of an affirmative action baby / Stephen L. Carter
From "affirmative action in the labor market" / Dave M. O'Neill and June O'Neill
From "affirmative action in higher education" / Harold Orlans
From ending affirmative action : the case for colorblind justice / Terry Eastland
From "affirmative action in education" / Richard F. Tomasson
From "affirmative action's contradictory consequences" / Madeline E. Heilman
From America in black and white, indivisible / Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
pt. 4. Primary sources
Title VII : equal employment opportunity
Executive order 11246 : equal employment opportunity
Proposition 209
Griggs et al. v. Duke Power Co
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber et al
H. Earl Fullilove et. al., Petitioners v. Philip M. Klutznick, Secretary of Commerce of the United States, et al
City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, Secetary of Transportation, et al
Cheryl Hopwood v. University of Texas