A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more
nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism,
discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and
justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional
perspective. Since 1961, the issue of "affirmative action" has been
a hotly contested legal and political issue. Intended to address
our nation's often horrifying discrimination against Black
Americans and other minorities, affirmative action has led over the
past sixty years to far greater minority representation across a
vast range of industries, government positions, and academic
institutions. Nonetheless, affirmative action policies in the
United States continue to fall under assault. In A Legacy of
Discrimination, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, two of
America's leading constitutional scholars, trace the policy's
history and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades.
They argue that in order to fully comprehend affirmative action's
original intent and impact, we must re-acquaint ourselves with the
era in which it arose, beginning with the most important Supreme
Court decision of the 20th century, 1954's Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas. Assessing this history, Bollinger and
Stone introduce subsequent, and evolving, affirmative-action case
law that had the intent and effect of constraining social,
educational, and economic progress for Black people and other
minority groups. They demonstrate how and why affirmative action
policies stand on firm legal ground and must remain protected.
Further, they explain why Americans must view affirmative action as
a long-term moral commitment to secure justice, especially for
Black Americans, after three and a half centuries of grave
injustice that violates the most essential aspirations of our
nation. A timely and robust overview of the history of our nation's
historical and continuing racial discrimination and of the advent
of affirmative action as a critical means to address this history,
this book will serve as a powerful defense of a policy that has
accomplished more than most people realize in making America a
fairer and more inclusive country.
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