The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such questions as, How did affirmative-action policies come to be? Who benefits most from them, and who suffers? How do these programs work in hiring, contracting, college admissions, and other fields? What will recent Supreme Court rulings and legislative initiatives mean? And, most fundamentally, does any race-conscious remedy simply perpetuate discrimination? Recognizing affirmative action as more than a black-and-white issue, this book includes the voices of women, Latinos, and Asian-Americans who are also affected but often ignored. A sourcebook of solid facts and surprising arguments, The Affirmative Action Debate is the one book you need to understand and discuss the nation’s sharpest political divide.
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George E. Curry is the editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular panelist on “Lead Story,” the BET network’s news-analysis program, and has been New York bureau chief and Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent and balanced collection of essays.,
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This book contains an excellent collection of essays by some of the greatest minds of this generation, including Cornel West, Manning Marable, and many others. I would recommend this book solely for the purpose of reading a copy of Lydon B. Johnson's commencement address at Howard University in 1965. Overall an excellent, and fair collection which should cause individuals on either side of this issue to reexamine their respective position on this debate.
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It is not in the least bit surprising to me that George Curry and Cornel West (two avid supporters of affirmative action) would purport to compile a an unbiased collection of the arguments for and against affirmative action - and yet unabashedly omit the writings of Dr. Thomas Sowell, who perhaps more thouroghly than any other scholar, has researched the subject - not only in the United States - but in cultures and societies throughout the world. My only guess as to why they wouldn't choose to include his writings on the issue (such as the one published in the Neo-Conservative Reader or excerpts from his book on preferential policies) is that if they did - there wouldn't really be an "affirmative action debate" at all.
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The most balanced treatment of a most misunderstood issue.,
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This book is arguably the most balanced treatment of one of the most poorly understood issues in contemporary American public policy. I read it when it first came out in 1996, and I feel that I a much better informed citizen on affirmative action as a result. This books is a collection of essays that present all sides of the debate on affirmative action from well-known scholars, businessmen, political and civic leaders. It dispels many of the misconceptions of the policy while highlighting its inherent flaws, explains the goals of the policy in its intended form, and includes two all but forgotten perspectives - that of women and Asian-Americans.A very good and easy read, anyone with a desire to have as broad an understanding as possible on affirmative should buy and read this book.
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In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois observed that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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racial preference programs, model minority myth, caucus groups, angry white men, contracting programs, affirmative action, federal contracting, minority contractors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Scar of Race by Paul M. Sniderman on page 59, page 325, and Back Matter
- Moral Rights in the Workplace by Gertrude Ezorsky on page 256, page 257, and Back Matter
- Race Matters by Cornel West in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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