Understanding affirmative action: politics, discrimination, and the search for justice
Affirmative action: the concept and the controversy -- Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity -- Affirmative action and preferential selection -- Assessing the argument: a review of the case for and against affirmative action -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action: an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints -- Cases from 1995 to 2003: challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action -- Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action -- Affirmative action in the twenty-first century.