Affirmative Action The Pros and Cons of

Hailed at the time of its original publication as a thorough and balanced debate of one of America's most vexing political issues, Affirmative Action employs a pro and con format to provide a concise introduction to this divisive debate. In a new, substantive introduction, Richard F. Tomasson offers a short history of the affirmative action debate and addresses new developments since the book's original appearance.

Preface

vii

Richard F. Tomasson

Part One For Affirmative Action

Faye J. Crosby

Sharon D. Herzberger

Acknowledgments

The Issues

5

(6)

Defining Affirmative Action

11

(16)

Underlying Issue of Need

27

(14)

Fairness and Affirmative Action

41

(16)

The Effectiveness of Affirmative Action

57

(8)

Making Affirmative Action Work

65

(20)

The Promise of Affirmative Action

85

(40)

Notes

91

(8)

References

99

(14)

Part Two Against Affirmative Action

Richard F. Tomasson

Acknowledgments

113

(4)

Section One Affirmative Action: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed (And Perhaps Never Was)

Prologue

117

(8)

The Origins of Affirmative Action

125

(10)

The Varieties of Affirmative Action

135

(8)

Affirmative Action's High-Water Mark: Johnson v. Santa Clara County (1987)

143

(14)

The Lowering of the Tide: Affirmative Action after Johnson

157

(18)

Section Two The Insuperable Problems of Affirmative Action

Introduction

173

(2)

Affirmative Action for Whom?

175

(14)

Affirmative Action in Education

189

(8)

Group Differences Won't Go Away

197

(8)

Affirmative Action for Blacks? Hispanics? Women? the Disadvantaged?

205

(30)

The People and Affirmative Action

235

(34)

Appendix One

249

(2)

Appendix Two

251

(4)

Notes

255

(8)

References

263

(6)

Index

269

(6)

About the Authors

275

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Affirmative Action The Pros and Cons of Policy Practice

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