Affirmative Action

Richard F. Tomasson is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico and author of Social Security: The First Half Century. Faye J. Crosby is professor of psychology at Smith College and author of Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families. Sharon D. Herzberger is professor of psychology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and author of Violence Within the Family: Social Psychological Perspectives.

Highly recommended to social scientists and the educated general reader who seek a deeper understanding of every angle of this contentious and problematic policy and the attitudes that surround it.

• Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 For Affirmative ActionChapter 3 The IssuesChapter 4 Defining Affirmative ActionChapter 5 Underlying Issue of NeedChapter 6 Fairness and Affirmative ActionChapter 7 The Effectiveness of Affirmative ActionChapter 8 Making Affirmative Action WorkChapter 9 The Promise of Affirmative ActionChapter 10 NotesChapter 11 ReferencesPart 12 Against Affirmative ActionChapter 13 Section One: Affirmative Action: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed (And Perhaps Never Was)Chapter 14 PrologueChapter 15 The Origins of Affirmative ActionChapter 16 The Varieties of Affirmative ActionChapter 17 Affirmative Action's High-Water Mark:Johnson v. Santa Clara County (1987)Chapter 18 The Lowering of the Tide: Affirmative Action after JohnsonChapter 19 Section Two: The Insuperable Problems of Affirmative ActionChapter 20 IntroductionChapter 21 Affirmative Action for Whome?Chapter 22 Affirmative Action in EducationChapter 23 Group Differences Don't Go AwayChapter 24 Affirmative Action for Blacks? Hispanics? Women? the Disadvantaged?Chapter 25 The People and Affirmative ActionChapter 26 Appendix OneChapter 27 Appendix TwoChapter 28 NotesChapter 29 ReferencesChapter 30 Index