The new politics of diversity. (Comment).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Starr, Paul
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN higher education is almost certainly on its way back to the Supreme Court in the wake of contradictory appellate decisions about racial preferences in admissions. Ten years ago it seemed that the Court might strike down affirmative action altogether in public universities.
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While that conceivably could still happen, the political context has substantially changed, and the outcome is now more likely to be an adjustment of policies in support of diversity rather than their abrupt reversal. And for that blessing we have to thank the interplay of demography and ...
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