Thanks to ALL who have replied so far to the request for information/articles on how best to respond to student's opposition to Affirmative Action programs. These look like good resources!
- Jan Buhrmann ========================== Jan Buhrmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Illinois College E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 217-245-3877 "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -- Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:21 PM To: Teaching Sociology Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: Affirmative Action Elizabeth (and others): I have used two articles in my course on race and ethnicity: -Duster, Troy. "Individual Fairness, Group Preferences, and the California Strategy," in Robert Post and Michael Rogin, eds. Race and Representation: Affirmative Action (New York: Zone Books, 1998), pp. 111-133 (actually, much of this book is useful, but I like Duster's analysis best) -Fish, Stanley. 1993. "Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black." Atlantic Monthly. Kane, Thomas J. 1998. "Racial and Ethnic Preferences in College Admissions." Pp. 431-56 in The Black-White Test Score Gap, edited by Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution has some more quantitative material on the benefits (and who benefits how much). I don't know much for gender-based Affirmative Action, though. --Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur New York University and Queens College, CUNY Elizabeth Durden wrote: > Hello All, > Thanks again to all the great Katrina posts over the past week. > > I need to do some reading on affirmative action -- very broad, I know. If > any of you assign readings dealing with Affirmative Action in your classes, > I would appreciate your citations. I would love to get a great review > piece, one that tackles not on the policy and justifications for > Affirmative Action but also provides some 'measurement' of who has been > assisted by the policy. > > As always, thanks. Elizabeth > > > Elizabeth Durden, Ph.D. > Department of Sociology and Anthropology > Bucknell University > Lewisburg, PA 17837
