Reflections of an affirmative action baby /
In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on racial preference written from personal experien...
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[New York, N.Y.] :
BasicBooks,
©1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On being a Black intellectual
- Part I: On being an affirmative action baby. Racial preferences? So what? ; The representatives of the people ; The best Black ; Racial justice on the cheap
- Part II: On being a Black dissenter. Silencing dissent ; On contenting oneself with silence ; Why "Black conservative" is pejorative ; Silencing doubt
- Part III: On solidarity and reconciliation. The special perspective ; Special but equal ; Racial solidarity and the Black intellectual.
