What is our goal: equal opportunity or equality of result? The
debate rages on. The November 5, 1996 decision by voters in
California to eliminate most forms of state sanctioned affirmative
action ignited a civil rights debate that sent shock waves across
the country. The vote had critics celebrating the dawn of a new era
of equal rights, while opponents warned of school and workplace
discrimination without the protective blanket of affirmative
action. The question of racial equality has inspired new debate
today, reminiscent of the conflicts of the 1960s. Again we ask
ourselves: Is affirmative action necessary to maintain equal labor
practices, school desegregation plans, and broad social standards
of racial equality? Does affirmative action or laws to roll it back
go against the idea of equality itself? Should race play an
important role in college admissions and corporate hiring? Is
affirmative action a poison instead of a cure? For some, it depends
on how the term is defined. These and other questions are debated
in this highly charged collection of essays by a distinguished
group of politicians, philosophers, educators, and others including
Tom Beauchamp, Ward Connerly, Ronald Dworkin, Stanley Fish, Lyndon
Johnson, Nicholas LeMann, Louis Pojman, George Sher, Thomas Sowell,
Shelby Steele, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Richard Wasserstrom, Cornell
West, and Steven Yates. Included also are important legal decisions
bearing on affirmative action.
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