Affirmative Action is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is a much-debated policy, in employment as well as in education, in the Supreme Court as well as on the street. Yet as this book shows, affirmative action is both sensible and effective, differing little from many other government programs that evoke no controversy. Why don’t Americans wholeheartedly support affirmative action?

In this timely and accessible book, Faye J. Crosby analyzes several different explanations offered by social scientists to answer this important qu...