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ABA Division for Public Education: Resources on Equality/Equal Protection: Affirmative Action




 

Equality/Equal Protection
Affirmative Action

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Books

Here are some recent books on equal protection and affirmative action. These materials are available in bookstores and libraries, not through the ABA or this site .

Ancheta, Angelo. Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Beckwith, Francis J. and Todd E. Jones, eds. Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997.

Carmines, Edward and James Stimson. Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.

Crenshaw, Kimberle, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. New York: New Press, 1996.

Dalton, Harlon. Racial Healing. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Eastland, Terry. Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Edley, Christopher. Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action and American Values. New York: Noonday, 1998.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

———. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Equality and Public Policy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989

———. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black And White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.

Hochschild, Jennifer. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Kahlenberg, Richard. The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Kull, Andrew. The Color Blind Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Lawrence, Charles R. III and Mari Matsuda. We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997.

Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Shipler, David K. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Skretny, David. The Ironies of Affirmative Action. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Urofsky, Melvin I. Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson v. Santa Clara. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Williams, Patricia. The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.


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