Skrentny, John David. 1996. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Does Skrentny demonstrate that the affirmative action "debate" has more than just two competing arguments stemming from the Right and the Left? If so, what are these alternative arguments?

Nathan Glazer (21) was on Skrentny's committee…do you think this significantly altered the analyses presented in this book?

Martin Luther King's (30-31) and Lipset's beliefs of colorblindness…

Chapter 1: The Ironies of Affirmative Action (1)
• Affirmative action has followed other "righteous" battles in American politics, such as the abortion debate (1)

Ironies of Affirmative Action (2)
• Exceptions to difference blindness, exceptions to merit, prevail in almost all walks of American life
• "Not only do whites tend to dislike affirmative action, but it appears that the policy tends to make whites think less of African-Americans as......

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