A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fun

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United S

Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations

Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired