Affirmative Action in the United States
Past, Present, and Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Wright, Donald K Wright (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-148 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-029-02-07 |
| OpenAlex | W2091765629 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
John David Skrentny. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 312. Lydia Chavez. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 305. Richard Delgado. The Coming Race Warf And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare. New York: New York Univer- sity Press, 1996. Pp. xvii + 198. To the writing of books on affirmative action there will be no end.1 Every year more and more ink is spilled on a public policy question that has divided the United States for some thirty years. The three books selected for review offer a window into the past, present, and future of affirmative action. Al- though open to the charge that what follows is, in effect, more spilled ink, it is nonetheless important for scholars who study contemporary America to follow a debate that shows no sign of letting up
Action (physics · Affirmative action · Battle · Charge (physics · Economic Justice · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |