Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
The Topic A Thumbnail History The Book Remembrance of Things Past Note on Citations Appendix to Chapter One: A Sampler of Federal Affirmative Action Programs Explicitly Mandated or Authorized by Statute or Administrative Regulation
2. The Roots of Affirmative Action, the Women's Movement, and the Groups Covered by Affirmative Action
Reconstruction and the Origins of Affirmative Action White Supremacy and the Origins of Disparate Impact The Women's Movement: The First and Second "Waves" Which Groups Should Be Eligible for Affirmative Action Benefits?
3. The Career of Affirmative Action in Employment
Prologue Title VII and Employment Discrimination The Midcareer of Employment Affirmative Action Hostilities ResumeThe Unresolved Issues of Affirmative Action in Employment
Appendixes to Chapter Three
Appendix One: Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures Appendix Two: Affirmative Action Guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Appendix Three: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs: Affirmative Action Programs
4. Affirmative Action and the Primary and Secondary Schools
Prologue The Epochal Brown Ruling Brown's Progeny Recent Scholarship on School Integration The Meaning of Brown I Ethnocentrism, Affirmative Action, and Bilingual Education The Twilight of Public School Racial/Ethnic Balancing, and the Continuing Quest for Reform
5. Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Prologue Affirmative Action and Student Admissions: Bakke and the Scholarly Debate Strict Scrutiny and University Admissions: The Hopwood Case The Unresolved Controversy over Nonremedial Affirmative Action The Formerly De Jure Segregated Universities: The Historically Black Colleges and the Traditionally White Institutions Gender Discrimination and Education
6. Affirmative Action and the Political Representation of Minorities
The 1965 Voting Rights Act and Its Amendments The "Racial-Gerrymander" Cases of the 1990s and the Constitutional Requirements of the Equal Protection Clause Women and Electoral Politics Epilogue
7. Affirmative Action and Fair Housing
Prologue Housing Segregation Federal Antidiscrimination Law Affecting Housing Integration Achievement and Maintenance Epilogue
8. Facing Affirmative Action's Future
Prologue Affirmative Action as an Instrument of Equal Opportunity: Genesis, Variety, and Uncertainty Central Legal Issues The Ideological Clash A Prelude to Judgment: A Sampler of Distinguished Disputants Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List and Index of Selected Cases
Topical Index
Index of Selected Names
