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Affirmative Action

Bergmann, Barbara R. In Defense of Affirmative Action. Basic Books, 1996. Argues that affirmative action programs are necessary and effective.

Bowen, William G. and Derek C. Bok. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton University Press, 1998. By the former presidents of Princeton and Harvard universities.

Chavez, Lydia. The Color Bind: The Campaign to End Affirmative Action. University of California Press, 1998. A study of California's Proposition 209, an initiative to do away with preferences in state hiring.

Edley, Christopher. Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action and American Values. Noonday, 1998. A spirited and lively analysis from the Clinton administration's point man on affirmative action.

Guernsey, Joann Bren. Affirmative Action: A Problem or a Remedy? Lerner, 1997. Discusses the pros and cons of affirmative action policy in the United States. Examines history, effects, and current problems, including the question of reverse discrimination. For middle school readers.

Lynch, Frederick R. Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action. Greenwood, 1991. Argues that the policy of preferential treatment by sex, race, and so-called minority status has created a class of white male victims.

Skrentny, John David. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Traces the development of affirmative action policies from 1964 to 1971.

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