The Ironies of Affirmative Action

Preface
1: The Ironies of Affirmative Action
2: The Appeal of Color-Blindness
3: American Justice, Acceptable Preference, and the Boundaries of
Legitimate Policymaking
4: Crisis Management through Affirmative Action
5: Administrative Pragmatism and the Affirmative Action Solution
6: Affirmative Action as Tradition
7: Creative Destruction in the Nixon Administration
8: Conclusion: Culture, Politics and Affirmative Action
Notes