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Race-Ing Legal Ethics, Anthony V. Alfieri
The Future Of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming The Innovative Deal, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
The Future Of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming The Innovative Deal, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
Faculty Scholarship
We are witnessing a broad-based assault on affirmative action – in the courts, the legislatures, and the media. Opponents have defined affirmative action as a program of racial preferences that threatens fundamental American values of fairness, equality, and democratic opportunity. Opponents successfully depict racial preferences as extraordinary, special, and deviant – a departure from prevailing modes of selection. They also proceed on the assumption that, except for racial or gender preferences, the process of selection for employment or educational opportunity is fair, meritocratic, and functional. Thus, they have positioned affirmative action as unnecessary, unfair, and even un- American.
Those of …