Publications on Affirmative Action
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Books
Anderson, T.H. (2004). The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bergmann, B.R. (1996). In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: Basic Books.
Brown, M.K., Carnoy, M., Currie, E., Duster, T., Oppenheimer, D., Shultz, M., Wellman, D. (2003). Whitewashing Race. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Curry, G. (Ed.). (1996). The Affirmative Action Debate. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown, and Company.
Malcolm Gladwell’s Success Story – The Boston Globe – December 13, 2008
Katznelson, I. (2005). When Affirmative Action Was White. New York: W.W. Norton.
Lawrence, C. R. & Jacobs, M. (1997). We Won’t Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Marin, P. & Horn, C.L. (2008). Realizing Bakke’s Legacy: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Access to Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Pub.
Page, S. E. (2007). The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
In Professor’s Model, Diversity = Productivity – The New York Times – January 8, 2008
Wise, T. J. (2005). Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. New York: Routledge.
Recent Journal Articles on Affirmative Action
Epple, D., Romano, R., Sieg, H. (2008). Diversity and Affirmative Action in Higher Education.Journal of Public Economic Theory, 10, 475-501.
Levi, A.S., & Fried, Y. (2008). Differences between African Americans and Whites in reactions to affirmative action programs in hiring, promotion, training, and layoffs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 1118-29
Mangan, M. (2008). Testing Competing Explanations of Black Opinions on Affirmative Action. The Policy Studies Journal, 36, 347-66.
Moses, M. S. & Saenz, L. P. (2008). Hijacking Education Policy Decisions: Ballot Initiatives and the Case of Affirmative Action. Harvard Educational Review, 78, 289-310.
Oliver, M.B., Yang, H., Ramasubramanian, S., Kim, J. & Lee, S. (2008). Exploring Implications of Perceived Media Reinforcement on Third-Person Perceptions. Communication Research, 35, 745-69.
White, F.A., Charles, M.A. & Nelson, J.K. (2008). The role of persuasive arguments in changing affirmative action attitudes and expressed behavior in higher education. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 1271-86.
Annotated Bibliography of Social Science Research on Affirmative Action
