Notes of a racial caste baby : color blindness and the end of affirmative action

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Label

Notes of a racial caste baby : color blindness and the end of affirmative action

Title remainder

color blindness and the end of affirmative action

Statement of responsibility

Bryan K. Fair

Title variation

Racial caste baby

Creator

• Fair, Bryan K., 1960-

Subject

• Employment
• Positieve actie
• Prejudice
• Public Policy
• Rassenongelijkheid
• Rechtsontwikkeling
• Social Justice
• USA
• United States
• Affirmative action programs -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

• In this provocative and important book, Bryan K. Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories - America's and his own - to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100 percent quotas to almost all professions, we have convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial
• affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-civil rights movement era - when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black - and today's affirmative action policies - which are decidedly not anti-white. He concludes that the only just and effective way both to account for America's racial past and to negotiate
• current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that does not rely on quotas or fiery rhetoric but takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors. Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a most personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste

Member of

• Critical America

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

331.13/3/0973

Index

index present

LC call number

HF5549.5.A34

LC item number

F336 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Critical America