Color Bind - California''s Battle to End Affirmative Action

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Origins: Canon and Culture Wars
on Campus
2. Hitting a Nerve: The Angry White Males of 1994 
3. The Opposition: The Split between Northern and Southern California 
4. The Republican Party and Affirmative Action: How a Wedge Issue Cuts Many Ways
5. Feminists, Minorities, and the Democratic Party: Democrats Search for a New Identity Politics 
6. The Ground War at Ground Zero: An Attempt to Revive the Grassroots 
7. Countdown: A Defining Moment, or the Color Bind 
8. Stumbling to the Finish Line: Dole Grasps for Proposition 209 and the Opposition Reaches for David Duke 
Afterword 
Appendix A. Cast of Characters 
Appendix B. Time Line 
Notes 
Suggested Reading 
Index
 

About the author

Lydia Chávez is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

Tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write "Proposition 209" in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation.

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Ch?vez, Lydia Chavez, Lydia Chávez
• Assisted by: Lydia Chávez (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.1998
• EAN: 9780520213449
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21344-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Local History, Politics and government, History of the Americas, US West