Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
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    [synopsis] => The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.

 In this provocative and important book, Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories--America's and his own- -to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100% quotas to almost all professions, we have now convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Centuries of racial caste, he argues, cannot be swept aside in a few short years.

 Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-Civil Rights Movement era--when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black--and today's affirmative action policies--which are decidedly not anti- white. He concludes that the only just and effective way in which to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that relies neither on quotas nor fiery rhetoric, but one which takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors.

 Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.

 Table of Contents

  A Note to the Reader 

 Acknowledgments 

 Preface: Telling Stories 

 Recasting Remedies as Diseases 

 Color-Blind Justice 

 The Design of This Book 

 Pt. 1. A Personal Narrative 

  Not White Enough 

  Dee 

 Black Columbus 

 Racial Poverty 

  Man-Child 

  Colored Matters 

 Coded Schools 

  Busing 

  Going Home 

  Equal Opportunity 

  The Character of Color 

 Diversity as One Factor 

 The Deception of Color Blindness 

 Pt. 2. White Privilege and Black Despair: The Origins of Racial Caste in America 

 The Declaration of Inferiority 

 Marginal Americans 

 Inventing American Slavery 

 The Road to Constitutional Caste 

 Losing Second-Class Citizenship 

 Reconstruction and Sacrifice 

 Separate and Unequal 

  The Color Line 

 Critiquing Color Blindness 

 Pt. 3. The Constitutionality of Remedial Affirmative Action 

 The Origins of Remedial Affirmative Action 

 The Court of Last Resort 

  The Invention of Reverse Discrimination 

  The Politics of Affirmative Action: Myth or Reality? 

 Racial Realism 

  Eliminating Caste

  Afterword 

 Notes 

 Index
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