Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and EmploymentSince 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. |
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Contents
Toward an Understanding of Affirmative Action | 13 |
Key Dates in the Battle over Affirmative Action Policy | 21 |
UC Must End Affirmative Action | 29 |
Defining Disadvantage up to Preserve Preferences | 31 |
In Defense of Affirmative Action | 34 |
Study of Doctors Sees Little Effect of Affirmative Action on Careers | 40 |
Scholarship Program for Whites Becomes a Test of Preferences | 43 |
Just Blind | 48 |
The Education of Richard Rodriguez | 139 |
A New Vision of Race in America | 144 |
From Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby | 150 |
From Affirmative Action in the Labor Market | 159 |
From Affirmative Action in Higher Education | 167 |
The Case for Colorblind Justice | 174 |
From Affirmative Action in Education | 176 |
From Affirmative Actions Contradictory Consequences | 182 |
Defining Affirmative Action | 56 |
An Equal Chance | 58 |
For Asian Americans a Barrier or a Boon? | 60 |
When a Law Firm Is Like a Baseball Team | 64 |
Wrong for Police Wrong for Universities | 67 |
Inclusive America under Attack | 70 |
From The Alchemy of Race and Rights | 75 |
From Justice Gender and Affirmative Action | 81 |
From In Defense of Affirmative Action | 89 |
Affirmative Action Race and American Values | 97 |
From The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment | 103 |
LongTerm Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions | 114 |
Expert Testimony in Defense of Affirmative Action | 124 |
Affirmative Action in Social Psychological Perspective | 134 |
One Nation Indivisible | 186 |
Title VII Equal Employment Opportunity | 202 |
Equal Employment Opportunity | 219 |
Proposition 209 | 230 |
Griggs et al v Duke Power Co | 232 |
Regents of the University of California v Bakke | 236 |
United Steelworkers of America AFLCIOCLC v Weber et al | 252 |
H Earl Fullilove et al Petitioners v Philip M Klutznick Secretary of Commerce of the United States et al | 258 |
City of Richmond v J A Croson Co | 280 |
Adarand Constructors Inc v Pena Secretary of Transportation et al | 294 |
Cheryl Hopwood v University of Texas | 310 |
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| Title | Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment |
| Authors | Faye J. Crosby, Cheryl VanDeVeer |
| Editors | Faye J. Crosby, Cheryl VanDeVeer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0472067346, 9780472067343 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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