Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic
inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other
statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever
written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil
rights tradition in the United States; evaluates public policies in
the areas of employment, education, and housing; and questions the
judgment and wisdom of their underlying premises--their focus on
group rights, rather than individual rights. Such policies, he
argues, are ineffective, unnecessary, and politically destructive
of harmonious relations among the races.
Updated with a long, new introduction by the author,
"Affirmative Discrimination" will enable citizens as well as
scholars to better understand and evaluate public policies for
achieving social justice in a multiethnic society.
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