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Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action (Critical America)

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The book is very real and I loved each chapter. I called my baby sister(the baby of 13) and read some of the preface to her and we reflected upon our own lives of "poverty in the raw." I "felt" the author because we have been there and done that. The book is really open and honest. All individuals of poverty in american can be proud that one of us made it out. We will all one day tell our story. This book provoked me to go ahead and get the law degree. Law is the rule of our experience. Thanks

Bryan Fair's book is both analitical and personal demonstration of why affirmative action is still necessary in this country, despite all the diatribe against it these days. Based at the University of Alabama and familiar with the administrative practicalities of implmenting affirmative action programs, Fair gives a wake-up call to all those white males who seem to think that affirmative action's time is past and it's finished it's work.

Fair points out that we'd be creating a minority underclass without AA, and how this would increase tension and make society worse for everyone, minority or not. Most tellingly, Fair inserts his own personal experience as a child in a family with 10 kids. With no AA, people like him wouldve been left behind. An important read.