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Law and Race

1996

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

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Three Models Of Affirmative Action Beneficiaries, Thomas W. Merrill Jan 1996

Three Models Of Affirmative Action Beneficiaries, Thomas W. Merrill

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What has caused the affirmative action debate to become so acrimonious? Perhaps some insight may be gained By considering three competing models of affirmative action beneficiaries that underlie this debate: (1) the outsider group model; (2) the interest group model; and (3) what I will call the adversity group model.

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