{"product_id":"notes-of-a-racial-caste-baby-color-blindness-and-the-end-of-affirmative-action-hardcover","title":"Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBryan K. Fair\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.\u003cbr\u003e In this provocative and important book, Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories--America's and his own- -to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100% quotas to almost all professions, we have now convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Centuries of racial caste, he argues, cannot be swept aside in a few short years.\u003cbr\u003e Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-Civil Rights Movement era--when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black--and today's affirmative action policies--which are decidedly not anti- white. He concludes that the only just and effective way in which to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that relies neither on quotas nor fiery rhetoric, but one which takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors.\u003cbr\u003e Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.\u003cbr\u003e Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e A Note to the Reader \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Preface: Telling Stories \u003cbr\u003e Recasting Remedies as Diseases \u003cbr\u003e Color-Blind Justice \u003cbr\u003e The Design of This Book \u003cbr\u003e Pt. 1. A Personal Narrative \u003cbr\u003e Not White Enough \u003cbr\u003e Dee \u003cbr\u003e Black Columbus \u003cbr\u003e Racial Poverty \u003cbr\u003e Man-Child \u003cbr\u003e Colored Matters \u003cbr\u003e Coded Schools \u003cbr\u003e Busing \u003cbr\u003e Going Home \u003cbr\u003e Equal Opportunity \u003cbr\u003e The Character of Color \u003cbr\u003e Diversity as One Factor \u003cbr\u003e The Deception of Color Blindness \u003cbr\u003e Pt. 2. White Privilege and Black Despair: The Origins of Racial Caste in America \u003cbr\u003e The Declaration of Inferiority \u003cbr\u003e Marginal Americans \u003cbr\u003e Inventing American Slavery \u003cbr\u003e The Road to Constitutional Caste \u003cbr\u003e Losing Second-Class Citizenship \u003cbr\u003e Reconstruction and Sacrifice \u003cbr\u003e Separate and Unequal \u003cbr\u003e The Color Line \u003cbr\u003e Critiquing Color Blindness \u003cbr\u003e Pt. 3. The Constitutionality of Remedial Affirmative Action \u003cbr\u003e The Origins of Remedial Affirmative Action \u003cbr\u003e The Court of Last Resort \u003cbr\u003e The Invention of Reverse Discrimination \u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Affirmative Action: Myth or Reality? \u003cbr\u003e Racial Realism \u003cbr\u003e Eliminating Caste\u003cbr\u003e Afterword \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative and important book, Bryan K. Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories - America's and his own - to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100 percent quotas to almost all professions, we have convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-civil rights movement era - when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black - and today's affirmative action policies - which are decidedly not anti-white. He concludes that the only just and effective way both to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that does not rely on quotas or fiery rhetoric but takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors. Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a most personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.27 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874106937650,"sku":"9780814726518","price":199.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/WiuE1Yu5z99780814726518.webp?v=1769601783","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/notes-of-a-racial-caste-baby-color-blindness-and-the-end-of-affirmative-action-hardcover","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}