Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action

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NOTES OF A RACIAL CASTE BABY CRITICAL AMERIC A General Editors : Richard Delgad o an d Jea n Stefanci c White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race IAN F . HANE Y LOPE Z Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching LOUISE HARMO N AN D DEBORA H W . POS T Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America STEPHANIE M . WILDMA N WITH MARGALYNN E ARMSTRONG , ADRIENN E D . DAVIS , AN D TRIN A GRILL O Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Goods the Constitution When You Can't Afford a Loaf of Bread R. GEORG E WRIGH T Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law RUTH COLKE R Critical Race Feminism: A Reader EDITED B Y ADRIE N KATHERIN E WIN G Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States EDITED B Y JUA N F . PERE A Taxing America EDITED B Y KARE N B . BROW N AN D MAR Y LOUIS E FELLOW S Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action BRYAN K . FAI R Please Don V Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State STEPHEN M . FELDMA N To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation BILL ON G HIN G BRYAN K . FAI R NEW YOR K U N I V E R S I T Y PRES S New Yor k an d Londo n NOTES O F A RACIAL CASTE BABY COLOR BLINDNES S and th e END of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION NEW YOR K UNIVERSIT Y PRES S New York and Londo n Copyright © 199 7 by New York Universit y All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dat a Fair, Bryan K., 1960Notes of a racial caste baby : color blindness and the end of affirmative actio n / Bryan K. Fair. p. cm.—(Critica l America ) Includes index . ISBN 0-8147-2651-8 (alk. paper) I. Affirmativ e actio n progress—United States . I . Title . II. Series . HF5549.5.A34F336 199 7 331.13'3'0973—dc20 96-2539 4 CIP New York University Press books are printed o n acid-free paper , and their binding materials are chosen for strength an d durability . Manufactured i n the United State s of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for De e ...