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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Fair, Bryan K., 1960- Notes of a racial caste baby. New York : New York University Press, ©1997 (DLC) 96025394 (OCoLC)35209268 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bryan K Fair |
ISBN: | 0585002584 9780585002583 9780814726518 0814726518 9780814727980 0814727980 |
OCLC Number: | 42854096 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 211 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; A NOTE TO THE READER; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE: TELLING STORIES; RECASTING REMEDIES AS DISEASES; COLOR-BLIND JUSTICE; THE DESIGN OF THIS BOOK; PART ONE A PERSONAL NARRATIVE; NOT WHITE ENOUGH; DEE; BLACK COLUMBUS; RACIAL POVERTY; MAN-CHILD; COLORED MATTERS; CODED SCHOOLS; BUSING; GOING HOME; EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; THE CHARACTER OF COLOR; DIVERSITY AS ONE FACTOR; THE DECEPTION OF COLOR BLINDNESS; PART TWO WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK DESPAIR: THE ORIGINS OF RACIAL CASTE IN AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INFERIORITY; MARGINAL AMERICANS. Inventing american slaverythe road to constitutional caste; losing second-class citizenship; reconstruction and sacrifice; separate and unequal; the color line; critiquing color blindness; part three the constitutionality of remedial affirmative action; the origins of remedial affirmative action; the court of last resort; the invention of reverse discrimination; the politics of affirmative action: myth or reality?; racial realism; eliminating caste; afterword; notes; index. |
Series Title: | Critical America. |
Other Titles: | Racial caste baby |
Responsibility: | Bryan K. Fair. |
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Abstract:
At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks. In this provocative and important book, the author combines two histories - America's and his own - to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action.
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