This story about Richard Kahlenberg, who was once a very good scholar, is just depressing but it also shows the extremely dark paths a "class not race" analysis will take you. There's a good bit of the white left and even part of the Black...
affirmative action
Protest against the California Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the anti-affirmative action case, Los Angeles, May 7, 1977.
Any similarities between the Trump administration and that of Andrew Johnson are surely coincidental. A White House press briefing focused on President Donald Trump’s proposed changes to the green card.
Very interesting Touré Reed analysis at Jacobin: The case for affirmative action — like unionization before it — proceeded from the view that anti-discrimination policy was in the public interest. Though the history of federal workplace anti-discrimination initiatives dates back to the New Deal, President...
I originally missed this Sigal Alon piece in The Nation on how the discourse of diversity helped kill affirmative action. She rightfully sees Bakke as laying the groundwork for the.
On September 23, 1969, President Richard Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan, forcing building trades unions to allow black members into their ranks. Nixon did this believing that it would show.
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions. In short, Fisher was a respectable but hardly exceptional student who simply did not have...
According to the always reliable John J. Miller, "[a] study says that black students take easier courses than white students at Duke University." He offers the following as his pull-quote: Although.
The discussion of John Kasich's lily-white cabinet has brought out two different perspectives about how to think about political appointments. The conservative position that this doesn't matter is based on.
OK that would be an unfair characterization of this Richard Cohen column.Slightly unfair:We should never confuse unfair with illegal. Still it would be nice if every once in a while they coincided. That is especially the case in matters such as this because the justification...