Overview

Most Americans support the elimination of race and gender prejudice and inequality, yet attitudes toward solutions have fluctuated since the civil rights movement began. A heated debate over the explicit use of race- and gender-based categories has taken center stage in the 1990s, and all eyes are on California, a precedent-setting state since establishing its first antidiscrimination policies in 1934 (federal policies followed almost a decade later). Paul Ong's collection of cogent social policy analysis and careful research intervene in these debates with grounded and complex assessments of the present and future of affirmative action. Chapters explore programs and outcomes in higher education, federal and state contracting, public employment, and minority- and women-owned businesses.

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An essential starting point for any future discussions of affirmative action and a model for the use of scholarly research in the assessment of public policy.--David Nasatir, (University of California, Berkeley)

...this edited collection uses California as a laboratory for assesing the effects of affirmative action policies...The substantive results of the empirical chapters are extremely interesting and important, and together they appear to constitute a weighty case against the dismantling of affirmative action programs ushered in by the passage of Proposition 209... this impressive and methodologically sound voulme will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars intersted in the origins, consequences, and empirical study of affirmative action and its consequences for a variety of labor market outcomes.--Matt L. Huffman Review Of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 55:1 Winter 2003

Author Information

Pail Ong is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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