Color Lines

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction, John David Skrentny
Part I: Affirmative Action in Multiethnic America: Policy History and Analysis
1. Breaking Through: The Troubled Origins of Affirmative Action in the Workplace
Thomas J. Sugrue
2. Affirmative Action for Immigrants? The Unintended Consequences of Reform
Hugh Davis Graham
3. Deconstructing Affirmative Action Categories
George R. La Noue and John C. Sullivan
4. How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management: Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961-1996
Erin Kelly and Frank Dobbin
5. Anatomy of Conflict: The Making and Unmaking of Affirmative Action at the University of California
John Aubrey Douglass
Part II: Afro-Americans and Immigrants in the Workplace
6. Producing Conflict: Immigration and Management of Diversity in the Multiethnic Metropolis
Michael Lichter and Roger Waldinger
7. The Racial and Ethnic Meaning behind Black: Retailers' Hiring Practices in Inner-City Neighborhoods
Jennifer Lee
Part III: The Views of Multiethnic America
8. Race, Interests, and Beliefs about Affirmative Action: Unanswered Questions and New Directions
Lawrence D. Bobo
9. Understanding Racial Polarization on Affirmative Action: The View from Focus Groups
Carol M. Swain, Kyra R. Greene, and Christine Min Wotipka
Part IV: Civil Rights and Affirmative Action beyond America
10. Positive Action or Affirmative Action? The Persistence of Britain's Antidiscrimination Regime
Steven M. Teles
11. The French Model: Color-Blind Integration
Erik Bleich
12. Affirmative Action, Caste, and Party Politics in Contemporary India
Sunita Parikh
13. Affirmative Action and Ethnic Niches: A Legal Afterword
Deborah C. Malamud
Index