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  4. See Zoya Hasan, Politics of Inclusion: Castes, Minorities, and Affirmative Action (2009); Marc Galanter, Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India (1984).

  5. See Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 15(2).

  6. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 26 (1976).

  7. See Statement of May 11, 1994, of Legal Advisor Conrad Harper to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, reprinted in American Journal of International Law 88 (1994): 721.

  8. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Art. 2, para. 2 (1969).

  9. Steven M. Teles, “Positive Action or Affirmative Action? The Persistence of Britain’s Antidiscrimination Regime,” in Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America, John David Skrentny, ed. (1998), 241.

  10. Ibid.

  11. See Daniel Sabbagh, “The Rise of Indirect Affirmative Action: Converging Strategies for Promoting ‘Diversity’ in Selective Institutions of Higher Education in the United States and France,” World Politics 63 (2011): 470; “Color-Blind Affirmative Action: The Case for France,” unpublished paper, June 2012.

  12. French constitution of October 4, 1958.

  13. See, generally, Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil (1998).

  14. Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (2006), 59.

  15. Ibid., 60.

  16. Quoted in Simon Romero, “Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action for Universities,” New York Times, August 30, 2012.

  17. Quoted in Judith February, “From Redress to Empowerment: The New South African Constitution and Its Implementation,” in The Next Twenty-five Years: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa, David L. Featherman, Martin Hall, and Marvin Krislow, eds. (2010), 75.

  18. R. W. Johnson, South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid (2013), 112.

  19. Neville Alexander, “The Struggle for National Liberation and the Attainment of Human Rights in South Africa,” in The Next Twenty-five Years: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa, David L. Featherman, Martin Hall, and Marvin Kirslov, eds. (2010), 55.

  20. Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 343 (2003).

  21. Ibid., 376 (Thomas, J., dissenting).

  22. Ibid., 345 (Ginsburg, J., concurring).

  Index

  Adarand Constructors v. Peña, 1.1, 1.2

  adoption, race policy and

  affirmative action

  achievement of

  antidiscrimination model of

  black anger and

  costs of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  deceptiveness of

  definitions of

  distrust and

  ethos of, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1

  future of, 5.1, 5.2

  international examples of

  liberals and

  Mandela on

  Obama’s definition of

  overpromotion and

  pedagogical function of

  race-neutral, itr.1, 5.1

  as racial subordination

  soft and hard forms of

  as term

  Thomas’s animosity toward

  toxic side effects of

  African National Congress (ANC)

  Alabama

  Alexander, Neville

  Alito, Samuel, 1.1, 4.1

  American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  American Civil Rights Foundation

  American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI), 1.1, 4.1n

  American Express, 2.1, 4.1

  American Philosophical Society

  Anderson, Elizabeth

  apartheid

  Appiah, Kwame Anthony

  Arizona

  Asian-Americans

  Association of American Law Schools (AALS), n

  Ayres, Ian

  Bahia state

  Bakke, Allan, 4.1, 4.2

  Bakke case, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  amicus curiae briefs in

  California Supreme Court and

  diversity rationale in, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2

  Fourteenth Amendment and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  Harvard’s admissions program and

  Marshall’s opinion in

  Powell’s opinion in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9

  rectification rationale in

  role of racial criteria in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  set-asides in

  slavery and Reconstruction issues in

  societal discrimination issue in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  strict scrutiny in

  University of California’s goals and standards in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  Balkin, Jack

  Batson v. Kentucky

  Bell, Griffin

  Bell, Jeannine

  Bell Curve, The (Herrnstein, and Murray)

  Bennett, Lerone, Jr.

  Bennett College, n

  Bergman, Barbara

  “best black” syndrome

  Bittker, Boris

  Black Manifesto

  Blackmun, Harry, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Black Panther Party

  Black Power

  Blasi, Vincent, 4.1, 4.2

  Boggs, Danny

  Bok, Derek

  Bolling v. Sharpe

  Boston Fire Department

  Bowen, William G., itr.1, 2.1, 4.1

  Boxill, Bernard

  Brandeis, Louis

  Brasília, University of, 2.1, 5.1

  Brazil

  eligibility debate in

  racial democracy in

  Brennan, Peter J.

  Brennan, William J., 1.1, 1.2, 3.1n, 4.1, 4.2

  Breyer, Stephen, 4.1n, 4.2

  Brock, William

  Brooks, Richard

  Brown, Kevin

  Brown v. Board of Education, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

  color-blindness issue and, 3.1, 3.2

  Buffet, Warren

  Bunche, Ralph

  Burger, Warren, 3.1, 4.1

  Bush, George H. W., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1n, 3.2

  Bush, George W., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

  Cain, Herman

  Calabresi, Guido, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1

  Calhoun, John C., n

  California, n

  Proposition 209 of, see Proposition 209, California

  California, University of:

  at Davis, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

  at Los Angeles

  see also Bakke case

  California Association of Scholars

  California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), see Proposition 209, California

  Cambridge University

  Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  Cardozo, Benjamin

  Carson, Ben

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Stephen L.

  Carter administration

  Case, Clifford P.

  Center for Equal Opportunity, 3.1, 4.1n

  Chicago Tribune

  Chirac, Jacques

  Chrysler Corporation, n

  City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

  Civil Rights Act of 1866

  Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1n, 4.1

  Title VII of, see Title VII

  civil rights movement, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2

  color-blind theme of

  Civil War, U.S., itr.1, 2.1

  Clark, Joseph S.

  Clark, Wesley K.

  Clay, Eric L.

  Clegg, Roger

  Clinton, Bill, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

  “mend it, don’t end it” address of

  Proposition 209 and

  Clinton, Chelsea

  Coca-Cola, 2.1, 2.2n

  Cohen, Carl, n

  Coleman, William T., Jr., 2.1n, 4.1


  Colorado

  color-blindness controversy, 3.1, 4.1

  adoption and

  attractions of

  Brown decision and

  Bunche on

  civil rights movement and

  disparate-impact theory and

  “emergencies” and

  and equivalence to segregation

  Fourteenth Amendment and

  Harlan’s declaration on, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  history of

  ICCPR and

  immediatists and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

  invoked by Supreme Court

  jury service and

  in New York Times

  problems with

  racial laissez-faire and

  racial profiling and

  racism and

  and risk of judgment

  Scalia and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Thomas and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  tipping phenomenon and

  Title VII and

  Congress, U.S., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2n, 3.3

  Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1.1, 1.2

  Connerly, Ward, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1

  Constitution, U.S., 1.1, 1.2n, 2.1, 3.1n, 4.1

  affirmative action and

  color-blindness of, see color-blindness controversy

  Fifteenth Amendment of, n

  First Amendment of, 1.1, 4.1

  Fourteenth Amendment of, see Fourteenth Amendment

  originalists and

  race and

  slavery and, n

  Cox, Archibald

  Croson, J. A.

  Custred, Glynn

  Decter, Midge

  Democratic Party, U.S., 1.1n, 1.2

  Detroit Symphony Orchestra

  Dirksen, Everett

  disparate-impact, theory of, 1.1, 3.1

  Supreme Court and, 3.1, 3.2

  diversity debate, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2

  allure of

  in Bakke, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2

  business people and, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1

  in Fisher

  Fourteenth Amendment and

  in Gratz, 4.1, 4.2

  in Grutter

  meritocratic premise of

  in military, 4.1, 4.2

  reaction against

  repudiation of

  Supreme Court and

  in University of Michigan case, 2.1, 2.2

  Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (Wood)

  Dole, Bob, 1.1, 1.2

  Dole-Canady Equal Opportunity Act, n

  Douglas, William O., 3.1, 4.1n

  Douglass, Frederick

  Dred Scott decision

  DuBois, W. E. B., itr.1n, 2.1, 4.1

  sketch of

  talented tenth idea and, 2.1, 4.1

  Duke Power Co.

  Dworkin, Ronald, 2.1, 4.1

  Edwards, Harry T.

  election, U.S., of 1994

  Elevator Constructors Local 5

  eligibility debate

  Asian-Americans and

  Brazilian debate on

  fraud and, 2.1, 2.2

  Malone brothers controversy and

  one-drop rule and

  other minorities and

  policing of, 2.1, 2.2

  racial identity and, 2.1, 2.2

  racial tensions and

  Warren scandal and

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  Ervin, Sam

  Estlund, Cynthia

  Executive Order 8802

  Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

  Fellowship of Southern Churchmen

  Fifteenth Amendment, n

  First Amendment, 1.1, 4.1

  Fish, Stanley

  Fisher, Abigail

  Fisher v. University of Texas, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2

  diversity debate and

  Fifth Circuit’s ruling on

  Kahlenberg on

  race factors in

  Sweatt case and

  Top Ten Percent Law and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  University of Texas admissions program and

  Fitzpatrick, Brian, itr.1, 3.1

  Fletcher, Arthur A., 1.1, 1.2

  Florida, n

  Foner, Eric

  Ford, Gerald R., n

  Forde-Mazrui, Kim

  Forman, James

  Fourteenth Amendment, 1.1n, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Bakke and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  color-blind debate and

  diversity debate and

  Equal Protection Clause of, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2n, 3.1, 4.1

  function of

  Interstate Commerce Clause of

  Sweatt family brief and

  France

  affirmative action in

  Frankfurter, Felix, 1.1, 2.1n

  Freund, Paul

  Fullilove v. Klutznick, 1.1, 1.2

  Garner v. Louisiana

  Garza, Emilio M.

  Gee, Thomas Gibbs

  Georgia v. McCollum, 3.1n

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  Glazer, Nathan

  Gotanda, Neil, n

  Graglia, Lino, itr.1, 2.1

  Graham, Hugh Davis, 1.1, 1.2

  Gratz, Jennifer

  Gratz v. Bollinger, 4.1, 4.2

  dissents in

  diversity debate and, 4.1, 4.2

  O’Connor’s dissent in, 4.1, 4.2

  Powell’s Bakke opinion and

  Rehnquist’s opinion in

  strict scrutiny in

  Supreme Court arguments in

  Great Britain

  Greenberg, Jack

  Green v. County School Board

  Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

  Grutter, Barbara

  Grutter v. Bollinger, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  amicus curiae briefs in

  calls for overruling of

  critiques of

  diversity rationale in

  O’Connor’s opinion in, 4.1, 4.2

  opinions in

  Powell’s diversity opinion and

  racial criteria in, 4.1, 4.2

  strict scrutiny critique in

  Supreme Court hearings in

  Guinier, Lani

  Gunther, Gerald, n

  Hager, Jenna Bush

  Halliburton

  Hamacher, Patrick

  Hamer, Fanny Lou

  Harlan, John Marshall

  Harris, Patricia

  Harvard University, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2

  admissions program of

  black undergraduates of

  Hastie, William

  Hefner, Hugh, n

  Helms, Jesse

  Herrnstein, Richard J.

  Higginbotham, A. Leon, n

  Higginbotham, Patrick E.

  Higher Education Act, South Africa

  Hinton, James

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

  Hoover Institution

  Hopwood v. University of Texas Law School, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1

  Sweatt family brief and

  Horowitz, Harold W., 4.1, 4.2

  House of Representatives, U.S., n

  1994 election and

  Houston, Charles Hamilton, itr.1n, 2.1, 2.2

  Howard University Law School

  Hudson-Price, Anne

  Hughes v. Superior Court

  Humphrey, Hubert, 1.1, 1.2

  identity, problem of, n

  India, 2.1n, 5.1

  constitution of

  Individual Rights Foundation

  Industrial Relations Research Association

  Inman, Bobby R.

  integration

  International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

  Israel

  Issacharoff, Samuel

  Ives-Quinn Act (NYS) of 1945

  Jackson, Jesse

  Jackson, Robert H.

  Je
ffries, John

  Johnson, Andrew, 1.1, 1.2

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1n, 3.1

  administration of

  Johnson, R. W.

  Johnson v. California

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Jones, Edith H.

  Jordan, Vernon

  Judicial Conduct and Disability Act Study Committee, n

  jury service

  Justice Department, U.S., 1.1, 4.1

  Civil Rights Division of

  Office of Legal Policy of

  Kagan, Elena

  Kahlenberg, Richard

  Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation

  Kaplan, John

  Karst, Kenneth, 4.1, 4.2

  Kennedy, Anthony, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Kennedy, John F., itr.1, 1.1n

  administration of, n

  King, Coretta Scott, n

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1

  Kinsley, Michael, n

  Korematsu v. United States, 3.1, 4.1

  Krieger, Linda Hamilton

  Kuchel, Thomas Henry

  labor, labor unions

  Labor Department, U.S., 1.1, 1.2

  Law of Social Quotas, Brazilian

  Law School Admission Test (LSAT)

  Levinson, Sanford

  Lewis, Jerry

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Liu, Goodwin

  Louisiana

  Plessy ruling and

  Loury, Glenn C.

  Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 2.1n

  Lula da Silva, Luis Inácio

  Malamud, Deborah, n

  Malaysia, 2.1n, 2.2n

  Malkin, Michelle

  Malone, Paul and Philip

  Mandela, Nelson

  Marsh, Henry

  Marshall, Thurgood, itr.1, itr.2n, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  Bakke opinion of

  Martin, Boyce F., Jr., 4.1, 4.2n

  Martinez, Susana

  Massachusetts, 2.1, 3.1

  McCain, Meghan

  McVeigh, Timothy

  Meese, Edwin, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1

  Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

  Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), n

  Michaels, Walter Benn

  Michalewicz, Rachel

  Michigan, 1.1, 1.2

  Michigan, University of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 3.1

  affirmative action program of, 2.1, 4.1

  see also Gratz v. Bollinger; Grutter v. Bollinger

  Michigan Civil Rights Commission

  Microsoft

  Minority Business Utilization Plan

 

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