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Notes of a racial caste baby : color blindness and the end of affirmative action /
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. In this provocativ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Critical America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.