Notes of a Racial Caste Baby Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
| Author/creator | Fair, Bryan K. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Publication Info | Fredericksburg : New York University Press |
| Description | 211 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation <p>The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.</p><p>In this provocative and important book, 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% quotas to almost all professions, we have now convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Centuries of racial caste, he argues, cannot be swept aside in a few short years.</p><p>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 in which to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that relies neither on quotas nor fiery rhetoric, but one which takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors.</p><p>Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.</p><p>Table of Contents</p><p>A Note to the Reader<br />Acknowledgments<br />Preface: Telling Stories<br />Recasting Remedies as Diseases<br />Color-Blind Justice<br />The Design of This Book<br />Pt. 1. A Personal Narrative<br />Not White Enough<br />Dee<br />Black Columbus<br />Racial Poverty<br />Man-Child<br />Colored Matters<br />Coded Schools<br />Busing<br />Going Home<br />Equal Opportunity<br />The Character of Color<br />Diversity as One Factor<br />The Deception of Color Blindness<br />Pt. 2. White Privilege and Black Despair: The Origins of Racial Caste in America<br />The Declaration of Inferiority<br />Marginal Americans<br />Inventing American Slavery<br />The Road to Constitutional Caste<br />Losing Second-Class Citizenship<br />Reconstruction and Sacrifice<br />Separate and Unequal<br />The Color Line<br />Critiquing Color Blindness<br />Pt. 3. The Constitutionality of Remedial Affirmative Action<br />The Origins of Remedial Affirmative Action<br />The Court of Last Resort<br />The Invention of Reverse Discrimination<br />The Politics of Affirmative Action: Myth or Reality?<br />Racial Realism<br />Eliminating Caste<br />Afterword<br />Notes<br />Index</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780814726525 |
| ISBN | 0814726526 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780814726525 |
| Stock number | 00019179 |
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