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"In his probing new book, [Graham] pulls the two topics together and concludes that immigration poses a mortal threat to existing civil-rights policy.... Graham believes the explosive growth in affirmative-action eligibility, thanks to immigration, now threatens the future of a program designed originally to empower blacks."--John J. Miller, The Wall Street Journal
"A concise, informative history of two much-debated policies, made richer by Graham's insight into their obvious relationship to each other."--Terry Eastland, Commentary
"There is no better guide for understanding civil rights history and politics than Hugh Davis Graham. With the broad vision, balance, and rigor that are his trademarks, Collision Course explains America's inexplicable civil rights politics at the century's turn. Boldly original, provocative, and utterly fascinating."--John D. Skrentny, University of California, San Diego, and author of The Ironies of Affirmative Action
"Combining shrewd political analysis with scholarly rigor, Hugh Graham packs more into these 200 pages than most of us could in 400. His analysis of the unanticipated interaction of immigration and affirmative action policies is tough-minded but scrupulously balanced. And by forcing us to think carefully about two issues that have been debated not only separately but irrationally, Graham helps us to understand our racial and ethnic past--and future."--Peter Skerry, Claremont McKenna College and the Brookings Institution
"Graham's account suggests that while immigration's future in America remains bright, affirmative action as we have known it is probably doomed. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in either." --Peter H. Schuck, Yale University Law School
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When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform applauded by the majority of Americans. But today, as Hugh Graham shows in Collision Course, affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct conflict for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs. How did two such well-intended laws come to loggerheads? Graham argues that a sea change occurred in American political life in the late 1960s, when a system of split government--one party holding the White House, the other holding Congress--divided authority and enhanced the ability of interest groups to win expanded benefits. In civil rights, this led to a shift from nondiscrimination to the race-conscious remedies of hard affirmative action. In immigration, it led to a surge that by 2000 had brought 35 million immigrants to America, 26 million of them Asian or Latin American and therefore eligible, as "official minorities," for affirmative action preferences. The policies collided when employers, acting under affirmative action plans, hired millions of immigrants while leaving high unemployment among inner-city blacks. Affirmative action for immigrants stirred wide resentment and drew new attention to policy contradictions. Graham sees a troubled future for both programs. As the economy weakens and antiterrorist border controls tighten, the competition for jobs will intensify pressure on affirmative action and invite new restrictions on immigration. Graham's insightful interpretation of the unintended consequences of these policies is original and controversial. A short, focused, and even-handed narrative, it illuminates many of the issues that vex the United States today.
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In the early 1990s, against a backdrop of economic recession and rising job insecurity in the United States, controversy over affirmative action and immigration policy intensified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hard affirmative action, chain immigration, employer sanctions law, executive order program, expansionist coalition, family reunification preferences, immigration reformers, liberal accord, affirmative action for immigrants, equal individual rights, affirmative action preferences, presumptive eligibility, civil rights regulation, visa preferences, immigration reform bill, official minorities, civil rights coalition, sisters preference, affirmative action benefits, national origins quota system, national origins system, minority preferences, tive action programs, amnesty provision, civil rights reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Philadelphia Plan, Civil Rights Act, Latin America, Supreme Court, New York, Labor Department, Jim Crow, White House, Los Angeles, American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Western Hemisphere, Leadership Conference, Census Bureau, Voting Rights Act, Silicon Valley, Third World, Judiciary Committee, Lau Remedies, New Deal, President Johnson, Ronald Reagan, North Carolina, President Carter New!
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In the early 1990s, against a backdrop of economic recession and rising job insecurity in the United States, controversy over affirmative action and immigration policy intensified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hard affirmative action, chain immigration, employer sanctions law, executive order program, expansionist coalition, family reunification preferences, immigration reformers, liberal accord, affirmative action for immigrants, equal individual rights, affirmative action preferences, presumptive eligibility, civil rights regulation, visa preferences, immigration reform bill, official minorities, civil rights coalition, sisters preference, affirmative action benefits, national origins quota system, national origins system, minority preferences, tive action programs, amnesty provision, civil rights reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Philadelphia Plan, Civil Rights Act, Latin America, Supreme Court, New York, Labor Department, Jim Crow, White House, Los Angeles, American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Western Hemisphere, Leadership Conference, Census Bureau, Voting Rights Act, Silicon Valley, Third World, Judiciary Committee, Lau Remedies, New Deal, President Johnson, Ronald Reagan, North Carolina, President Carter New!
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- Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration by David Reimers on 6 pages
- Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America by David Reimers on 5 pages
- The Minority Rights Revolution by John D. Skrentny on 4 pages
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow by The late C. Vann Woodward on 4 pages
- Immigration in a Changing Economy by Kevin F. McCarthy on page 200, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Breach of Faith: American Churches and the Immigration Crisis by James C. Russell on page 67, and page 78
- The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action by Terry H. Anderson in Back Matter
- The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg in Back Matter
- The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg in Back Matter
- Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey in Back Matter
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